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1 Peseta Barbastro
| Issuer | Consejos Comarcal y Local de Barbastro |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on cream paper showing a standing male peasant figure in wide-brimmed hat, leaning on a long-handled shovel, set against a rural landscape with a farmhouse to the left. An oval cartouche to the left bears the inscriptions COMARCAL ECONOMIA BARBASTRO, while the denomination VALE POR UNA PESETA appears in bold lettering to the right. Corner numeral 1 devices flank the upper and lower borders, and the printer's imprint CENTRO ADMON. MPAL. EMP. COL. C.N.T. BARCELONA appears along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BARBASTRO / Administración y Depositaría (Translation: Municipal Council of Barbastro / Administration and Depository) |
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Barbastro, a small Aragonese town, was one of dozens of Spanish municipalities that issued their own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's central coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. These local emissions — collectively called "moneda local de necesidad" — were authorized loosely, often printed quickly, and almost always redeemed (or voided) within months. The Consejo Comarcal y Local combined both the district and municipal authority into a single issuing body, an arrangement forced by the wartime reorganization of Republican administration in Aragón.
The C.A.M. in Barcelona handled a considerable volume of these provincial emergency jobs, which is why the printing quality tends to be more consistent than notes produced by local commercial printers under worse conditions.