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1 Peseta Maella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Maella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre note with a dark brown geometric border incorporating scrollwork and foliate corner ornaments. The municipal coat of arms of Maella — a shield bearing an open hand beneath a crown, flanked by laurel branches — occupies the centre, below the issuing authority's name on a ribbon banner at top. Two dark oval vignettes at left and right each bear the numeral '1' and the legend 'PESETA', with three manuscript signatures below identified as Depositario, Alcalde, and Interventor, and the serial number in a lower panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de MAELLA RECONOCE AL PORTADOR UNA PESETA 1 PESETA DEPOSITARIO ALCALDE INTERVENTOR De curso obligatorio en el término municipal. 1º de noviembre de 1937 |
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Maella is a small municipality in Aragon, and this note is a product of the anarchist-influenced Republican zone during the Civil War. When the Franco uprising disrupted normal commerce in 1936–37, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — particularly in Catalonia and Aragon — resorted to issuing their own emergency fractional currency as coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight. The Consejo Municipal, in many cases effectively controlled by CNT-FAI committees, became the de facto monetary authority at the local level.
Gari's cataloguing of these guerra civil municipales runs to thousands of entries; the -B suffix here indicates a distinct variety, likely a second emission or a paper or color variant from the primary issue.