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1 Peseta Mequinenza
| Issuer | Mequinenza, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Typeset in blue on plain paper, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border. A blank circular or oval space to the left is reserved for the official municipal stamp, with the mandatory-circulation legend and denomination value printed in the central field. |
| Reverse lettering | Certificado de plata de curso obligatorio en Mequinenza (Zaragoza) Vale 1 peseta (Translation: Silver certificate of mandatory circulation in Mequinenza (Zaragoza) Value 1 Peseta) |
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Mequinenza is a small Aragonese town at the confluence of the Ebro, Segre, and Cinca rivers — strategically significant, fiercely contested during the Civil War, and under Republican control when this note was produced. Municipal emergency currency of this kind filled a genuine void: the hoarding and disappearance of metal coinage in 1936–37 left local economies functionally paralyzed without some form of small-denomination substitute.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida printed for numerous Republican municipalities across the region during this period, which gives the series a certain documentary coherence even as individual issues remain highly localized. Gari Mon catalogs this as variant C, implying at least two earlier emissions from the same municipality.