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20 Centimos Maella
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Maella |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 20 Centimos 0.20 ESP = SEK 0.013 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a Spanish Republican postal stamp design printed in purple on a cream-colored cardboard disc, with perforated edges visible around the stamp impression. At the centre, the large numeral '20' is rendered in ornate serif lettering within a circular frame, below which appears the denomination legend 'CÉNTIMOS'. The circular legend 'REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA' arcs around the upper portion of the stamp design, while 'CORREOS' appears along the lower margin. Decorative foliate corner ornaments occupy each corner of the rectangular stamp impression. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown ink on a green-tinted cardboard ground and displays the municipal arms of Maella at the centre: a shield bearing an open hand, surmounted by a castellated crown, all set within an inner circle beneath which the date '1937' appears in the field. The surrounding circular legend reads 'CARTON MONEDA DE USO PROVISIONAL' arcing around the upper half, with '· MAELLA ·' prominently displayed along the lower arc. A decorative foliate border with dot ornaments frames the entire design. |
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Maella is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and like dozens of Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. Cardboard and paper tokens of this kind — locally called cartones — were produced by town councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to keep small transactions moving when metal coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply never arrived.
Aragon was anarchist-collectivist territory through much of this period, administered by the Council of Aragon rather than the central Republican government in Valencia.