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1 Peseta Candasnos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Candasnos |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Red card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CANDASNOS" appears in bold capitals at the top right, with the town name underlined by a double rule. The face value "Una peseta" is set in italic bold lettering within a rectangular cartouche flanked by arrow-shaped pointers at centre right, with a hand-written serial number in the left margin. A legal tender clause in roman type occupies the lower right portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain red card stock, entirely unprinted save for a faint oval municipal dry stamp impressed at centre, its legend largely illegible due to light pressure. |
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Candasnos is a tiny municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and this note is among the smallest-denomination emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War — a period when the Republican government's inability to keep small coinage in circulation forced hundreds of individual ayuntamientos and consejos to print their own fractional paper. The Consejo Municipal de Candasnos had no printing infrastructure to speak of; these were typically produced locally with whatever means were available, authenticated only by an official rubber stamp.
The village's wartime population was under a thousand. That the note exists at all is the more remarkable fact.