Catalog
1 Peseta Cangas de Onís
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cangas de Onís |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset voucher printed in black letterpress on white paper, enclosed within a single red-line rectangular border. The text is arranged in centered lines across the face, with a red circular stamp and a red arrow serving as the principal graphic elements. No vignette or ornamental underprint is present, consistent with the austere emergency issue character of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Cangas de Onís VALE POR 1 PESETA NOTA.- El Consejo Municipal tiene hecho un Depósito en el Banco por importe de los vales puestos en circulación. (Translation: City Council of Cangas de Onís Voucher for 1 Peseta Note.- The Municipal Council has made a deposit in the Bank for the amount of the vouchers put into circulation.) |
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Cangas de Onís holds a particular place in Spanish history as the first capital of the Asturian kingdom following the Moorish invasion, but the reason this note exists is far more mundane: the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Republican Spain during the Civil War. Municipal governments across Spain — hundreds of them — filled the gap by issuing their own fractional emergency currency when the central supply of coins collapsed after 1936. Cangas de Onís was one of countless Asturian municipalities that did exactly this.
The Garrido Montero reference is unassigned, which typically indicates documentation is incomplete or the note was catalogued late.