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1 Peseta La Unión
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Unión |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a yellow ground, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of rose vignettes at the corners linked by dotted guilloche bands. The left two-thirds carry the issuing authority's legend and denomination in bold letterpress text, with the date 'La Unión, Junio 1937' below the value statement. To the right, a secondary inner frame of rose motifs encloses the numeral denomination 'UNA Peseta', with two manuscript signatures below — those of the Alcalde and the Depositario — flanked by their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNA PTA. (Translation: One Peseta) |
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La Unión, a mining town in Murcia, was a Republican stronghold during the Civil War, and its municipal council — like dozens of others across loyalist Spain in 1936–37 — was forced into issuing its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's central coin supply collapsed almost immediately at the outbreak of hostilities. The Consejo Municipal notes were a stopgap, not a banking exercise.
The Gari Montaña catalogue places this among the rarer provincial emissions from the Murcia region. Many of these municipal issues were printed in very small runs on whatever stock was locally available, and surviving examples frequently show the handling damage of genuine heavy use.