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1 Peseta Poleñino
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Poleñino |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA Peseta Consejo Municipal de Poleñino UNA peseta Emisión hecha según Bases aprobadas en sesión del 3 de Octubre de 1937. (Translation: One Peseta Municipal Council of Poleñino One Peseta Issue made according to Bases approved in session of October 3, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal rubber stamp at center, incorporating the Spanish Republican coat of arms within its design. |
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Poleñino is a village in Huesca province, Aragon, with a population that likely numbered in the hundreds during the Civil War. That a settlement this small issued its own emergency paper currency — a vale or local warrant — is less surprising than it seems: the Republican zone's chronic shortage of small coinage after 1936 forced hundreds of municipalities, collectives, and even individual businesses to print their own fractional substitutes. The Consejo Municipal was simply doing what its neighbors were doing.
Aragón produced some of the most numerous and obscure municipal issues of the entire war. Gari's catalog remains the essential reference for these, and the #1148-C suffix suggests variant differentiation within the Poleñino emission — likely a color or overprint distinction.