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1 Peseta Ugíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ugíjar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE UGÍJAR abonará al portador UNA peseta Ugíjar 10 Octubre de 1937. Vale 1 pta. (Translation: Municipal Council of Ugíjar will pay the bearer One Peseta Ugíjar October 10, 1937. It's worth 1 Peseta) |
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| Reverse lettering | EL INTERVENTOR, (Translation: The Comptroller) |
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Ugíjar is a small town in the Alpujarras region of Granada province, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency fractional pieces that flooded Republican-held Spain after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. The collapse of coin circulation — silver hoarded, copper distrusted, the central government unable to supply adequate small change — forced municipal councils across the Republic to print their own. Ugíjar's council was among them.
The Garrido-Marsà reference system catalogues these municipally issued pieces with some precision, but survivorship is genuinely uneven. Many were redeemed and pulped; others simply disintegrated in the heat and damp of rural Andalusia.