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1 Peseta Alacón
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Alacón (Municipality of Alacón) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse bearing a single oval municipal rubber stamp impression, enclosing the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at centre, with the council inscription running around the inner border of the oval. |
| Reverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE - ALACÓN (Translation: City Council of - Alacón) |
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Alacón is a village in Teruel province, Aragon — population a few hundred even today — and in 1937 it was deep in Republican-held territory during one of the most economically dislocated periods of the Civil War. The collapse of normal monetary supply to rural municipalities forced hundreds of ayuntamientos across the Republican zone to print their own emergency fractional currency, often on whatever paper and equipment was locally available. This is one of those issues.
Gari Mon #34-B suggests at least a second type variant exists for Alacón's 1 Peseta, implying more than one printing run or design iteration from a village that could barely have justified one.