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1 Peseta Cabrales
| Issuer | Municipio de Cabrales |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPIO DE CABRALES Vale por UNA PESETA, valedero su circulación en todo el término municipal, como asimismo en establecimientos oficiales, públicos, comerciales y particulares. Garantizado su valor por la Gestora Municipal. Sin fecha fija de caducidad. Cabrales, Mayo de 1937. V. B. El Alcalde, Intervenido El Secretari-Interventor, (Translation: Municipality of Cabrales. It is worth ONE PESETA, valid for circulation throughout the municipal area, as well as in official, public, commercial and private establishments. Its value is guaranteed by the Municipal Management. No fixed expiration date. Cabrales, May 1937. Approved. The Mayor. Audited. The Secretary-Auditor.) |
| Reverse description | Plain red-orange paper with a single line of small black typeset text reading "Tiene fondos" positioned in the upper-central area, with no other design elements, vignettes, or decorative work present. |
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Cabrales is a small municipality in Asturias, best known today for its pungent blue cheese. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Republican-held areas throughout northern Spain faced acute shortages of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency paper scrip. These local emissions, collectively known as "billetes de necesidad," were produced under wildly varying conditions, some printed by local presses, others handwritten or rubber-stamped.
The Gari Monerris reference number remains unassigned, indicating this piece either escaped cataloguing or surfaced after the standard editions were compiled.