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1 Peseta Peñarroya de Tastavins
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Peñarroya de Tastavins |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single oval municipal dry or ink stamp applied by hand at centre, incorporating the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic and the surrounding legend of the Republican municipality. |
| Reverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO REPUBLICANO - PEÑARROYA DE TASTAVINS (Translation: Republican City Council - Peñarroya de Tastavins) |
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Peñarroya de Tastavins is a village in the Matarraña district of Aragon, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency emissions produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War when the coin shortage became so severe that municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives printed their own fractional currency. The Nationalist blockade of silver and copper supply chains left Republican-zone villages functionally without change, and the central government's repeated attempts to suppress local emissions — most notably the decree of September 1937 — were largely ignored.
Gari Montllor's catalog documents over a thousand distinct municipal issues from this period; that this note sits at #1099-C within that sequence gives some sense of just how fragmented small-denomination circulation had become by mid-war.