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1 Peseta Estercuel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estercuel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#622-E |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ESTERCUEL PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE 1 PESETA Billete de curso forzoso en la localidad Estercuel a 6 de Septiembre de 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Estercuel Will pay the bearer the amount of 1 Peseta Mandatory course banknote in the municipality Estercuel, September 6, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The face value numeral '1' appears twice flanking the denomination text, all contained within a series of concentric circular guilloche-style ornamental rings at centre, surrounded by a geometric ruled border framing the entire field. The design is simple and typographic, consistent with locally produced wartime emergency currency. |
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Estercuel is a tiny Aragonese village — population never exceeded a few hundred — yet like dozens of similarly small Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when coin disappeared from circulation entirely in 1936–37. The hoarding of metal, combined with Republican requisitioning of silver and copper for the war effort, left local economies functionally stranded without small change. Municipal councils stepped in with locally printed or handstamped paper fractional notes, often in runs of a few hundred pieces.
Gari's monograph documents over 1,500 such issuers from Aragón alone. Survival rates for Estercuel emissions are low — the village was taken by Nationalist forces during the Aragón offensive of August 1938.