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1 Peseta Altorricón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Altorricón |
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| Size | 70 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALTORRICON Valor: 1 peseta FACILITAR CAMBIO (Translation: Municipal Council Altorricon Value: 1 Peseta Facilitate change) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise plain reverse applied with a rectangular violet ink stamp enclosing the legends CONSEJO MUNICIPAL and ALTORRICON at top and bottom respectively, the initials U.C.T. and C.N.T. flanking a central vignette of two clasped hands, the whole constituting the official municipal validation impression. |
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Altorricón is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small-denomination paper when coin coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. Hoarding, requisitioning, and the general collapse of the Republican monetary supply hit rural Aragon particularly hard, forcing local bodies to fill the gap with whatever they could print.
The Gari Monovar catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish local issues, and the -B suffix here suggests at least one variant exists — likely a difference in paper stock, signature, or overprint.