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1 Peseta Urrea de Gaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urrea de Gaén |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed certificate on plain paper in green ink, with the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic positioned in the upper left corner. The text body, set in a formal typeface, establishes the legal-tender status of the certificate within the municipality of Urrea de Gaén (Teruel) and references validation by the council seal applied to the reverse. The designation of denomination, issuing authority, and emission year 1937 are all incorporated within the printed text. |
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| Reverse description | Largely unprinted on cream-coloured paper, with a vertical ochre-yellow band running centrally along the full height of the note. A manuscript serial number is inscribed in the upper right area. The reverse served as the surface for the validating council stamp referenced on the obverse. |
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Urrea de Gaén is a small municipality in the Teruel province of Aragon, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central authorities could not supply adequate coinage. These locally printed notes — collectively called "billetes de necesidad" or emergency money — proliferated across the Republican zone from 1936 onward, with each issuing council responsible for its own guarantee and redemption.
Teruel province saw some of the war's most brutal fighting; the Battle of Teruel in the winter of 1937–38 effectively ended local circulation of notes like this one.