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1 Peseta Escatrón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Escatrón |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed entirely in red ink within a plain linear border frame. The municipal coat of arms of Escatrón is centred at the top, flanked by the issuing authority's name; below, a formal serif typeface carries the denomination, legal-tender clause, and instructions for validation. The note bears no serial number, its sole authentication being the official municipal ink stamp applied to the reverse as directed in the printed text. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Escatrón is a small mining town on the Ebro in Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively authorised local authorities to fill the coin shortage themselves. These town council notes — *vales* or *billetes de necesidad* — were produced under improvised conditions, often at local print shops with no meaningful anti-counterfeiting capability beyond an official rubber stamp.
The Gari Montaner catalogue remains the primary reference for Aragonese local issues. Escatrón pieces at the 1 peseta level are seldom encountered outside Spanish regional collections.