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1 Peseta Gijón, Fábrica de Vidrios Gijón Fabril
| Issuer | Gijón Fabril, Fábrica de Vidrios |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress scrip note printed in black and red on a light blue underprint, with the factory emblem set within geometric ornamental borders occupying the central field. Bold letterpress text carries the issuer name, denomination, and issuing authority, with a serial number in black at lower left. The note is dated 15 July 1937 and authorised by the factory council as an internal-regime issue. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left plain on cream-toned paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Gijón Fabril was a glassworks, not a bank — and that is exactly the point. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting factories, municipalities, and trade unions across Asturias to print their own emergency fractional currency. This note is one of those industrial issues, authorized locally and accepted within a limited commercial radius rather than through any formal banking channel.
Asturias fell to Nationalist forces in October 1937, which effectively sets a hard terminus for how long these notes could have circulated — likely a matter of months at most.