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1 Peseta La Zaida
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Zaida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 119 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain white field enclosed within a scalloped black letterpress border. The issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal / LA ZAIDA (Zaragoza)' is set in the upper portion, with a serial number to the right followed by an asterisk; a horizontal rule separates the header from the body text. The denomination 'UNA Peseta' is rendered in large bold type at centre, flanked by the obligation clause to the left and 'Emisión 1937.' to the right, with an ink stamp and a manuscript signature applied over the face. The printer's imprint 'LA TIPOGRAFICA. — J. SANZ. CASPE' appears in small type along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal LA ZAIDA (Zaragoza) Este Consejo reconoce al portador, UNA Peseta Emisión 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council La Zaida (Zaragoza) This Council recognizes the bearer, One Peseta Issue 1937.) |
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La Zaida is a small municipality on the Ebro in Aragon, and this note was issued by its local municipal council during the Republican zone's acute small-change crisis of 1937 — a period when the peseta's fractional coinage had vanished almost entirely from circulation through hoarding and wartime disruption. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities issued their own emergency paper in response, and the majority were printed by whatever local press was accessible.
J. Sanz at La Tipográfica in Caspe — roughly 40 kilometers upstream — handled production. Caspe was the seat of the Council of Aragon at the time, which made it the administrative and logistical hub for much of the Republican Aragonese interior during 1937.