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1 Peseta Serón

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Serón
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Obverse description Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue ink, with a geometric rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuer name appears underlined at the top, followed by the promise-to-pay text in a structured typographic layout with the denomination numeral and abbreviated unit at the base.
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Reverse description The reverse is printed on the back of a repurposed civil registry form, ruled with a grid of solid and dotted lines forming tabular columns and rows in black ink, with a printed imprint along the lower edge reading in mirror image: "Mod. 78.-25.000 ejemplares.-Octubre 925." The field is otherwise blank, with the pre-printed table structure of the original registry document clearly visible.
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Serón is a small inland municipality in Almería province, and this note is a product of the chaotic early months of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's decree of August 1936 authorized local councils to issue emergency fractional currency to combat the disappearance of coin from circulation. The Consejo Municipal de Serón — like hundreds of similar bodies across Republican-held Spain — printed its own scrip simply to keep local commerce functioning.

Gari Mon catalogues two variants for this issuer; this is the B type. Provincial emergency issues from Almería are notoriously underrepresented in collections outside Spain.

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