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1 Peseta Fayón
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Fayón (Municipal Council of Fayón) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta de Ferrando, Reus |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in dark red on cream paper, with a fine stipple dot-matrix underprint across the entire field. The face value '1 PTA.' is set in a plain white square panel at the left and repeated in smaller format at the lower right, while the issuer name 'AYUNTAMIENTO DE FAYÓN' is set in large bold capitals across the central panel, flanked by two solid circular ornaments. The municipality name 'FAYÓN' and date '1937' appear in opposing corners, with a manuscript serial number above the central text and an official ink stamp partially overlapping the lower central area. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper enclosed within a simple single-line rectangular border, with the entire field occupied by a block of typeset text in dark reddish-brown letterpress ink. The text sets out the purpose and authorisation of the emergency currency issue, concluding with the stated face value '1`00 pta.'. The composition is entirely typographic, devoid of ornament or vignette, consistent with the austere character of locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency paper money. |
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Fayón is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and in 1937 it sat in contested territory during the Aragonese campaign of the Spanish Civil War. Municipal emergency issues like this one — produced by local councils when the Republic's central supply of small change collapsed — were a direct consequence of coin hoarding and the near-total disappearance of metal currency from everyday commerce across Republican-held zones.
Imprenta de Ferrando in Reus handled a number of these local emergency emissions from Catalonia and eastern Aragon. The 1 peseta denomination was among the most practical for daily transactions, which typically means higher print runs and, paradoxically, lower survival rates due to heavy use.