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1 Peseta Abarán
| Issuer | Abarán, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue ink, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border with dotted corner ornaments. The issuer's name appears in bold display type at the top, with the denomination "Una Peseta" printed in large letterpress text at centre, flanked by a red serial number. Two manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Alcalde and the Secretario, accompanied by an oval official ink stamp. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues from the Murcia region. |
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Abarán is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Republican government formally authorized local bodies to print these emergency notes — known as *billetes de necesidad* — but oversight was minimal, and quality varied wildly from one municipality to the next.
The Gari Mon#3-B reference distinguishes this from at least two other Abarán issues in the same denomination, implying variant printings or paper stocks within a single year's production run.