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1 Peseta Blesa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Blesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress text on plain paper ground with a geometric border framing the entire note. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears in the upper left corner, flanked by the issuing authority's declaration and date of issue. The overall layout is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BLESA 1 PESETA 1 (Translation: Municipal Council of Blesa 1 Peseta 1) |
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Blesa is a small Aragonese village — population well under a thousand even in the 1930s — and its municipal council issued this peseta during the Civil War under the broader Republican emergency that drove hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own fractional currency when coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. The phenomenon was widespread across the Republican zone from 1936 onward, as copper and silver were hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from trade.
Gari Monerris remains the essential reference for these Aragonese emissions, and the -C suffix on this catalog number typically denotes a distinct typographic or paper variant within the Blesa series — small runs from small places, often showing considerable variation between printings.