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0.25 Pesetas Estopiñán
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estopiñán |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Litografia Lafont i Miralles, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in olive-green on plain paper, enclosed within a geometric border of repeating triangular motifs. The text block occupies the central field, with the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic placed at the upper left corner. The full treasury declaration, issue date, and municipal authority are set in letterpress across the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on plain paper and framed by the same repeating triangular geometric border as the obverse. The central vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of the hilltop town of Estopiñán, rendered in fine lithographic line work, with a church tower visible at the left and densely clustered stone buildings rising up the hillside. A bold caption legend runs across the lower margin, with the printer's imprint in small text beneath the vignette, and a handwritten serial number appears in the upper right corner. |
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Estopiñán is a small municipality in Huesca, Aragon — during the Civil War, hundreds of Spanish towns issued their own fractional paper currency when metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Republican government authorized local councils to fill the gap, and by 1937 the volume of these emergency emissions was enormous. Lafont i Miralles in Barcelona handled lithographic work for many of them, producing notes for municipalities that could never have sustained a print run on their own.
The Gari Monetary catalogue reference 626-B indicates a second known variety for this denomination, suggesting at least one earlier emission or plate variant exists.