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1 Peseta Murcia
| Issuer | Murcia, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#983-F |
| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a view of the Puente de los Peligros (Old Bridge) arching over the river, with the Town Hall building visible in the background; to the left stands the carved sandstone sculpture known as El León del Malecón. The obligation text runs across the note in letterpress, stating the Municipal Council of Murcia's commitment to redeem the note at face value in Banco de España banknotes. |
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| Reverse description | The Coat of Arms of Murcia occupies the centre, surmounted by the mural crown associated with the Spanish Republic, and flanked on either side by two cherubim rendered in a classical heraldic style. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged around the arms. |
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Murcia was one of dozens of Spanish Republican municipalities that issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after silver and copper coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. The Generalísimo's Nationalist blockades and hoarding stripped the Republic's zones of small change faster than Madrid could respond centrally, leaving local councils to print their own solutions.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the documented local emission series, though survival rates for these municipal notes vary sharply — many were printed on poor wartime stock and circulated hard before the peseta was eventually restabilized under Franco.