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1 Peseta Mequinenza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mequinenza |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE 1 PTA. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MEQUINENZA Cinco vales canjeables a su presentación por cinco pesetas plata o papel de curso legal. Mequinenza, 15 abril de 1937. (Translation: Value 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Mequinenza Five vouchers exchangeable on presentation for five silver pesetas or legal tender paper. Mequinenza, April 15, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground enclosed by a rectangular border composed of a repeating square-dot guilloche chain with ornamental corner devices in brown. The central field carries the mandatory-currency certification text in brown letterpress, with the denomination "Vale 1 peseta" set in a larger typeface below. A small printer's imprint reading "Imp. Pagés, Lérida" runs vertically along the right inner margin. |
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Mequinenza is a small mining town in Aragon where coal extraction dominated local life, and by 1937 the Republican zone was fractured enough that individual municipalities were printing their own emergency notes to keep daily commerce moving. The Consejo Municipal — effectively the local administration under wartime conditions — authorized this issue when the regular banking system had broken down and coin had vanished from circulation entirely, hoarded or melted.
Imp. Pagés in Lérida produced notes for several Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during this period, making them one of the more prolific local printers of Civil War emergency currency. Mequinenza itself was later submerged beneath a reservoir in the 1960s following the construction of a dam — the original town no longer exists.