Catalog
1 Peseta Castejón de Sos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Economía de Castejón de Sos |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink on plain paper stock, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border rule. The issuing authority name and municipality appear in the upper register, while the face value "UNA PESETA" is set in a shaded panel along the lower border, the overall design characteristic of improvised Civil War-era emergency municipal issues. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse carrying two hand-applied circular official seals in violet ink, one at center-left and a second at upper-right, partially overlapping, both referencing the issuing municipality of Castejón de Sos; no engraved or typeset design elements are otherwise present. |
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Castejón de Sos is a small mountain municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republic's central supply of small change collapsed entirely. These local issues — called billetes de necesidad or war money — proliferated from 1936 onward as hoarding and metal requisitioning stripped coins from circulation. The issuing authority here, a Municipal Economic Council, was the standard administrative body established in Republican-held territory to manage local economic functions under wartime conditions.
The official seal is the sole security feature, which was typical of the more remote municipal issues where printing resources were whatever the local council could arrange.