Catalog
1 Peseta Chiprana
| Issuer | Comité de Chiprana |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink-tinted note printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a decorative double-rule border with ornamental corner and mid-point devices. The issuer's name appears in bold uppercase across the top, separated from the body text by a thin rule; the bearer clause is set in a lighter typeface at centre, with the large numeral '1' at left and the denomination 'Peseta' in bold at right-centre. Two manuscript-style underprint stamps are visible: an oval red stamp of the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores and a fainter violet stamp reading 'Colectividad de Chiprana', both applied in the lower right quadrant. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain pink-tinted paper, with faint impressed fold lines visible across the surface and a collector's pencil notation in the upper right corner. |
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Chiprana is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, Aragon. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of such local committees — Republican-controlled town councils and militias — issued their own emergency scrip when the central government's currency disappeared from circulation. These hyper-local notes, known collectively as "billetes de necesidad," were typically printed in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper was available, and accepted only within the issuing locality itself.
Survival rates are low precisely because they were never meant to last. The Comité de Chiprana's issue is among the more obscure of the Aragonese municipal emissions.