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1 Peseta Peñalba
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Peñalba |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black letterpress on pink card stock, the obverse carries the issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PEÑALBA (Huesca)' in bold uppercase letters at the top, separated from the lower text by a solid horizontal rule. The denomination 'VALE 1 PTA.' is set in large bold type at centre, below which a handwritten serial number appears. Two lines of smaller italic text at the base state the conditions of validity and redemption at the Treasury. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PEÑALBA (Huesca) VALE 1 PTA. Su validez la acredita el sello al dorso. Canjeable en Tesorería. (Translation: Municipal Council Peñalba (Huesca) Value 1 Peseta. Its validity is confirmed by the seal on the back. Redeemable in Treasury.) |
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Peñalba is a small municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon. This note belongs to the enormous wave of locally issued emergency paper that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the withdrawal and hoarding of metallic coinage created a near-total breakdown of small change in towns and villages. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses printed their own fractional currency — often on whatever card or paper was available — because the alternative was a barter economy at the village level.
The official stamp is the only authentication device, which was typical for these rural emissions and did little to prevent copying. Gari's cataloguing of this piece as Mon#1097-D suggests variant classification within the Peñalba issues, likely a paper or stamp color distinction.