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1 Peseta Castejón de Sos

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Castejón de Sos
Year 1937
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Reverse description Printed in blue letterpress on cream paper, the reverse presents the denomination numeral '1' within a plain circle at centre, enclosed by a simple floral and foliate ornamental border. Letterpress inscriptions above and below the central device state the issuing authority and denomination, with a further legend affirming the note's status as compulsory legal tender within the municipal district of Castejón de Sos.
Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CASTEJON DE SOS 1 PESETA Billete de curso forzoso en el Distrito municipal de Castejón de Sos
(Translation: Municipal Council Castejon de Sos 1 Peseta Banknote of mandatory course in the Municipal District of Castejón de Sos)
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Castejón de Sos is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its council issued emergency fractional currency — *moneda local* — to address the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation after 1936. The Republican government tolerated these emissions rather than authorizing them, and their legal standing was always ambiguous.

The Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona produced notes for dozens of Catalan and Aragonese councils during this period, which gives the series a certain uniformity of production quality that the chaotic political circumstances might not suggest. Castejón de Sos sits in the Ribagorza comarca, territory that remained behind Republican lines through much of the conflict.

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