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1 Peseta Santalecina
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Santalecina |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in greenish blue ink on a yellowish green background, the face is enclosed within a geometric perimeter border. The central field is occupied entirely by the authorizing resolution text set in multiple typographic lines over a lightly patterned underprint, with no pictorial vignette present. |
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| Reverse lettering | Una Peseta Billete de curso obligatorio en el pueblo de Santalecina (Translation: One Peseta Mandatory course note in the town of Santalecina) |
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Santalecina is a small municipality in the Monegros district of Huesca, Aragon — during the Civil War, Republican-controlled town councils across rural Spain issued their own paper fractional currency when metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation. These local emergency emissions, collectively documented under the Gari Monographic catalog, were produced in the hundreds by villages that had no practical alternative.
The Ayuntamiento's single known denomination suggests a minimal issue, likely hand-stamped or lithographed locally. Survival rates for notes from villages this size are low — small print runs, heavy use, and postwar suppression of Republican material all took their toll.