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1 Peseta Murcia
| Issuer | Murcia, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The upper centre bears the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, flanked by the two columns of Hercules, in a composition typifying Republican emergency currency of the period. Below, a vignette illustrates a worker striking an anvil with a hammer alongside a rifle-bearing soldier with fixed bayonet, reiterating the alliance of labour and armed defence. The issuing authority, place name, and date legend complete the design at the lower portion. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA MURCIA FEBRERO 1937 (Translation: Spanish Republic Murcia February, 1937) |
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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.