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1 Peseta La Puebla de Castro

Issuer Comisión Gestora de La Puebla de Castro
Year 1937
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse lettering La Comisión Gestora de LA PUEBLA DE CASTRO Pagará al portador UNA PESETA Según acuerdo de 18 Noviembre de 1937
(Translation: The Management Committee of La Puebla de Castro Will pay the bearer One Peseta According to the agreement of November 18, 1937)
Reverse description Dark blue letterpress text printed over a uniform stippled dot underprint covering the entire face within a plain rectangular border. The denomination is set in a mixed serif typeface, with 'UNA' in large display capitals and 'PESETA' in smaller capitals; the printer's imprint 'Imprentas Socializadas - GRAUS' appears below the border in plain roman type.
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La Puebla de Castro is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and its 1937 peseta note belongs to the vast and poorly documented corpus of emergency local currency — billetes locales — issued during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican zone experienced acute small-change shortages. The Comisión Gestora was the wartime administrative body that replaced the pre-war municipal government, and it is the issuing authority here rather than any banking institution.

Imprentas Socializadas of Graus was a collectivized print shop operating under anarcho-syndicalist control during this period, which accounts for its unusual designation. Graus itself, roughly 15 kilometers from La Puebla de Castro, served as a regional printing hub for several neighboring municipalities issuing similar emergency scrip.

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