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1 Peseta Yegen
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Yegen (Granada) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher with black typeset text on a green underprint composed of a repeating geometric pattern of small squares interspersed with text. The denomination '1 Pta.' and the issuing authority inscription are contained within a rectangular border frame enclosing the entire face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse bearing a handwritten signature above the manuscript title 'El Secretario', with a handwritten serial number inscribed in the upper right corner, consistent with the rudimentary production methods characteristic of wartime Spanish municipal emergency issues. |
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Yegen is a small village in the Alpujarras mountains of Granada province, now best known internationally as the place where Gerald Brenan lived for years after the First World War. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — the central government's inability to supply fractional currency forced hundreds of municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives across Spain to print their own emergency paper. Yegen's Consejo Municipal issued this peseta under exactly that pressure.
The Gari Montaner catalogue documents thousands of these local Spanish Civil War issues, most in tiny print runs intended for purely local exchange. Provincial issues from the Alpujarras are among the harder-to-source in the series.