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20 Centimos Alcolea del Pinar
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Alcolea del Pinar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central circular field featuring a stylized depiction of a glass or cup, with the date '1937' inscribed above and the inscription 'GUADALAJARA' below the image. The outer border carries the legend 'CARTÓN MONEDA DE USO PROVISIONAL' along the upper arc and 'ALCOLEA DEL PINAR' along the lower arc, all in bold Latin lettering. A decorative chain-link or scroll pattern frames the outer border, consistent with locally produced emergency currency of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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Alcolea del Pinar is a small Castilian municipality on the road between Madrid and Zaragoza, and in 1937 it was sitting in Nationalist-held territory where the collapse of the Republican peseta's credibility — and chronic shortages of small metallic coinage — forced hundreds of Spanish towns to issue their own emergency scrip. These cartones moneda, printed on cardboard, were a purely local solution to a purely local problem: making change.
At 35mm, this piece is unusually large for a 20-céntimos denomination, a consequence of cardboard's inability to convey value through heft.