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1 Peseta Graus
| Issuer | Municipality of Graus (Province of Huesca) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with the municipal coat of arms of Graus at left, framed by foliate vignette with floral scrollwork and laurel branches. To the right, the bearer clause and denomination UNA PESETA in large script lettering, with series designation and date of authorization below. Two signature lines for El Presidente and El Secretario appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress vignette occupying most of the note, showing a modernist public building in Graus with trees to the right, rendered in a photomechanical style. Issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de GRAUS in large block lettering across the top, denomination 1 PESETA at upper left, and compulsory currency notice in a framed panel at the bottom. |
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Graus is a small town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 after the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely. These local issues — collectively catalogued under the broader emergency money literature as billetes locales — were legal only within the issuing municipality, redeemable in theory once normalcy returned. For most Republican-held towns in Aragon, it never did.
The Gari Mon reference places this among the documented Aragonese emissions, though survival rates for Huesca province issues are uneven — many were destroyed or lost following the Nationalist advance through the region in 1938.