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1 Peseta Albelda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albelda |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock with all text printed in blue by letterpress within a bold double-line rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in the upper portion in mixed-case lettering, with the municipality name centred and separated by a horizontal rule, and the denomination stated in large capitals across the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse, showing only the plain cream-coloured card stock with no text, vignette, or other markings. |
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The Consejo Municipal de Albelda issued this 1 peseta note as an emergency local currency — a necessity that arose repeatedly across small Aragonese towns during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left ordinary commerce paralyzed. Municipal councils across Republican-held territory were authorized, often informally, to print their own provisional scrip to keep local markets functioning.
The Gari Morell catalog reference places this within the documented Aragonese municipal emissions, though survivorship for small-town issues like Albelda is poor — print runs were small, redemption was unreliable, and most examples were simply discarded once the wartime emergency passed.