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0.50 Pesetas Aliaga
| Issuer | Aliaga, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper note produced by letterpress in blue ink, with the full text of the municipal authority arranged in typed lines across the face. A handwritten signature of the President appears below the printed text, accompanied by an oval municipal stamp bearing the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, serving as the sole authentication device on this wartime emergency issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALIAGA SERIE C) Nº 1132 MONEDA LOCAL VALE POR 0`50 PESETAS RESPONDE DEPOSITARIA ALIAGA 10 JUNIO 1937 EL PRESIDENTE, (Translation: Municipal Council of Aliaga Series C) Number 1132 Local Coinage Valid for 0.50 Pesetas Depository responds Aliaga June 10, 1937 The President) |
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Aliaga is a small municipality in the province of Teruel, Aragon — deep inside territory that saw brutal and prolonged fighting during the Spanish Civil War. Local emergency fractional currency of this kind was issued by hundreds of Spanish towns and villages in 1936–37, a direct consequence of small-denomination coinage vanishing from circulation almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising. The Republican government authorized municipalities to fill the gap themselves, which they did with varying degrees of printing quality and official formality.
Teruel province issues are among the scarcer groups in this series — the region changed hands violently, and much local paper did not survive.