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1 Peseta Azanuy
| Issuer | Azanuy, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in green ink, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally placed, dividing the issuer name into two lines. The text block below carries the legal tender declaration and the authorising session date, all set in plain typeface typical of wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / AZANUY (HUESCA) 1 Peseta Estos billetes son de curso legal en este término municipal. Emisión aprobada en sesión celebrada el 21 de Octubre de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Azanuy (Huesca) 1 Peseta These banknotes are legal tender in this municipal term. Issue approved in session held on October 21, 1937.) |
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Azanuy is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon — population in the hundreds — and like dozens of similarly small Republican municipalities in 1937, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency when coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The phenomenon was widespread enough that Aragon alone produced hundreds of distinct local emissions during the Civil War years, most in tiny quantities and on whatever paper stock was available.
Survival rates for these village notes are erratic. Some municipalities printed so few that even a single circulated example is genuinely uncommon; others surface with surprising regularity. Azanuy's emission sits in Garrió's catalog at reference 210-C, suggesting variant classification within the series.