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1 Peseta Baza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Baza |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA Peseta CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BAZA (Granada) Certificado de moneda legal Reembolsable por la Caja Municipal contra su presentación Baza, 1.º de Septiembre de 1937. (Translation: One Peseta Municipal Council of Baza (Granada) Legal currency certificate Reimbursable by the Municipal Fund against its presentation Baza, September 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in light blue, the reverse carries a panoramic vignette of the city of Baza, with a church occupying the central position within the townscape. The denomination is indicated in abbreviated form within the composition. |
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Baza, a small city in Granada province, was held by Republican forces during the early stages of the Civil War, and its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Republican zone throughout the conflict. These local emergency notes — known collectively as papel moneda de necesidad — were authorized under a Republican decree permitting municipal bodies to issue low-denomination scrip when coin circulation had effectively collapsed.
The Consejo Municipal series from Baza is sparsely documented, and surviving examples turn up rarely enough that condition tends to be secondary to mere availability.