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1 Peseta Velilla de Ebro
| Issuer | Velilla de Ebro, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the design is enclosed within a geometric border frame. To the left, a circular emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon is set against two stylised watermill wheels. The text is arranged in letterpress across the face of the note, with denomination and issuing authority inscriptions disposed centrally and along the lower register. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - VELILLA de EBRO 1 PTA. (Translation: Municipal Council - Velilla de Ebro 1 Peseta) |
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Velilla de Ebro is a small Aragonese municipality on the Ebro, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable in rural areas. These municipal emergency issues were a practical stop-gap, not a monetary policy decision from Madrid.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents thousands of such local issues; the 1541-C reference places this among the better-catalogued Aragonese pieces, though survival rates for Velilla's notes are low given the town's size and the chaos of the Aragon front in 1937.