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1 Peseta El Escorial de la Sierra
| Issuer | El Escorial de la Sierra, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue ink with a border of small perimeter circles forming the outer frame, and a red five-pointed star as an underprint in the centre of the note. The stylized local coat of arms appears in the upper left corner, with all legends and denomination text set in letterpress typeface. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue ink, the reverse carries a photographic-style letterpress vignette of the Fuente de la República (Republic Fountain), rendered with two obelisk-shaped finials rising symmetrically above a stepped stone basin, set against a backdrop of trees. A caption legend is inscribed on the central plinth of the fountain structure. |
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Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency — issued by the local ayuntamiento of El Escorial de la Sierra when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in Republican-held territory during 1937. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities printed their own fractional paper money that year, each under acute coin shortage conditions caused by hoarding and wartime disruption to the mint.
Gari Mon #608-D places this within a documented local series, though surviving examples are irregularly catalogued due to the chaotic circumstances of their issue and the destruction of municipal records in the aftermath of the war.