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1 Peseta Arén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Arén |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#179-B |
| Obverse description | Printed on orange-toned card stock, the face carries a letterpress-executed rectangular border composed of alternating stars and dots arranged in rows along all four edges, with corner roundels. Within this frame, the issuing authority and denomination are set in bold letterpress type across three lines, followed by a mandatory circulation clause in smaller text. A handwritten serial number prefixed by 'Núm.' appears in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE AREN Vale por 1 peseta De circulación obligatoria dentro la población. Núm. (Translation: Municipal Council of Aren Valid for 1 Peseta Mandatory circulation within the city. No.) |
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Arén is a small municipality in the Ribagorza comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local councils to produce small-denomination notes to address the catastrophic shortage of coin. These municipally-issued pieces — collectively known as "billetes locales" or "moneda local de guerra" — were often printed on whatever card stock or heavy paper was at hand, with production ranging from crude rubber-stamp jobs to surprisingly competent letterpress work.
Gari's cataloguing of the Arén issues identifies this as variant B, implying at least two distinct printings or type differences exist within the series.