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1 Peseta Murcia
| Issuer | Murcia, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in letterpress style presents a male worker grasping a pickaxe and a uniformed soldier shouldering a bayoneted rifle, their hands joined in a fraternal clasp emblematic of Republican civil-military solidarity. The municipal coat of arms of Murcia is rendered in the background, flanked by palm trees and a bridge motif. Denomination numerals '1' appear at the left and right margins, with the full payment obligation legend distributed around the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE MURCIA PAGARA AL PORTADOR EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA LA CANTIDAD DE 1`00 PESETAS (Translation: The City Council of Murcia Will pay the bearer in banknotes of the Bank of Spain The amount of 1.00 Pesetas) |
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Murcia was one of dozens of Republican municipalities that printed their own small-denomination notes during the Civil War after the hoarding of coins — driven partly by the peseta's instability and partly by sheer panic buying — created a near-total collapse of fractional currency in circulation. The central government in Valencia repeatedly failed to supply adequate coinage, so local councils stepped in with whatever printing resources they had at hand.
The Gari Mon#983-B designation distinguishes this from at least one other Murcian 1 Peseta type, suggesting multiple print runs or variant issues from 1937 alone — not unusual for emergency municipal paper produced without standardized quality controls.