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1 Peseta Mazarrón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mazarrón |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal MAZARRON (Murcia) DEPOSITARIA / Emisión 1937 Certificado papel moneda depositado en este Municipio UNA PESETA De curso legal en esta localidad El Alcalde El Depositario Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Municipal Council of Mazarrón (Murcia) Depositary / Issue 1937 Paper money certificate deposited in this Municipality One Peseta legal tender in this town The Mayor The Depositary Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, showing only the cream-coloured paper stock with show-through of the obverse letterpress impression and a violet municipal rubber stamp applied by hand. |
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Mazarrón was a mining town in Murcia whose municipal council — like hundreds of others across Republican Spain — was forced to print its own small-denomination paper after the Civil War disrupted the supply of coin. The centimos and peseta fractions that greased daily commerce simply vanished from circulation by 1936, hoarded or melted, and Madrid had neither the capacity nor the logistics to plug the gap locally. Municipal councils filled the void themselves, often printing on whatever stock was available.
The Gari Monetary catalog classifies this under reference 903-C, implying multiple emission variants from Mazarrón — unusual for a town of this size, and worth verifying against the specific serial or stamp when cataloging individual examples.