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1 Peseta Aínsa
| Issuer | Aínsa, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Dark red-pink letterpress on a light red-pink background, with the municipal coat of arms of Aínsa positioned to the left. The face carries the full authorising legend of the Comisión Gestora de Aínsa referencing the extraordinary session of 30 August 1937, with the denomination stated as Una Peseta. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMISION GESTORA DE AINSA 1 EMISIÓN APROBADA EN SESIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA DEL 30 DE AGOSTO 1937 UNA PESETA (Translation: Management Committee of Ainsa Issue approved in special session on August 30, 1937 One Peseta) |
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Aínsa is a small walled town in the Pyrenean foothills of Huesca, and its decision to issue fractional emergency currency in 1937 reflects the near-total breakdown of small-change supply across Republican Spain during the Civil War. The central government in Madrid and the Generalitat in Barcelona both struggled to keep low-denomination coin in circulation; municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses stepped in to fill the gap, producing thousands of distinct local emissions collectively known as billetes locales or moneda de guerra.
Printing through Imprenta El Secretariat Català — a Barcelona press with strong ties to Catalan civil institutions — was a practical choice for Aragonese municipalities in the Republican zone. Gari Mon#31-C places this within a documented series for Aínsa, suggesting at least minor typographic or color variants exist within the emission.