Catalog
1 Peseta Barbastro
| Issuer | Consejos Comarcal y Local de Barbastro |
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| Printer | Centro de Administración Municipal (C.A.M.), Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJOS COMARCAL Y LOCAL / ECONOMIA / VALE POR UNA PESETA / COMARCAL BARBASTRO / ECONOMIA / LOS SECRETARIOS GENERALES / COMARCAL LOCAL (Translation: Regional and Local Councils / Economy / Valid for One Peseta / Regional Barbastro / Economy / The General Secretaries / Regional Local) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper, otherwise blank, bearing a hand-applied oval violet ink stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Barbastro at centre, with a serial number printed in black along the right margin. |
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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.