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1 Peseta Lalueza

Issuer Lalueza, Municipality of
Year 1937
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Obverse description Plain typeset note printed in black ink on white paper, with the date, serial number, and denomination rendered in typewritten characters. A partial municipal stamp bearing the issuer's name appears on the face, lending official authentication to the issue.
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Reverse description Plain light blue paper reverse, devoid of printed design or lettering, bearing two handwritten manuscript signatures applied in ink as the sole authenticating elements.
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Lalueza is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon — deep in Republican-held territory during the early months of the Civil War. Like dozens of Aragonese villages in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional paper when the Republic's coinage supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and requisition. These municipal notes were born of necessity, not monetary ambition, and most were redeemed locally and destroyed once the crisis eased.

The Gari Monetary catalog reference places this firmly within the documented Aragonese municipal issue series, though survival rates for single-peseta village notes from this region are low — they were small-denomination daily-use instruments in a wartime agricultural economy.

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