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1 Peseta Zurgena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Zurgena |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ZURGENA VALE POR UNA PESETA Valor depositado reintegrable en billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Municipal Council of Zurgena Voucher for One Peseta Amount deposited repayable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a single applied violet circular validation handstamp to the right, enclosing a crowned heraldic shield and the legend CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ZURGENA, confirming official municipal authorization of the voucher. |
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Zurgena is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency when coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These consejo municipal notes were a purely local solution to a national problem — each one was only valid within the issuing town's limits, which is precisely why so many series were printed in tiny quantities and survive in such small numbers today.
The Gari Monereo catalog reference places this among the documented Andalusian issues, though documentation for Zurgena's emission is thinner than for larger municipalities.