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1 Peseta Cieza
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cieza (Municipality of Cieza) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress text on a yellow radiant underprint, enclosed within a geometric guilloche border. The central inscription states the issuing authority and promise to pay, with the denomination and emission year arranged in a structured typographic layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE CIEZA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 1 / UNA PESETA EMISIÓN 1937 (Translation: City Council of Cieza Will pay the bearer 1 / One Peseta Issue 1937) |
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Cieza is a town in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These ayuntamiento issues were technically unauthorized under central Republican financial policy but tolerated out of necessity, and their authority extended no further than the issuing town itself.
The Gari Montserrat reference system remains the standard for cataloguing these local Spanish Civil War emissions, and 538-H indicates a specific variant within the Cieza series. Survival rates vary sharply even between variants; provincial town issues from this period were not archived with any consistency.