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1 Peseta Chiprana
| Issuer | Comité de Chiprana |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITÉ DE CHIPRANA Pagará al portador en especies 1 Peseta Sello (Translation: Committee of Chiprana / Will pay the bearer in goods / 1 Peseta / Seal) |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain pink-tinted paper, with faint impressed fold lines visible across the surface and a collector's pencil notation in the upper right corner. |
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Chiprana is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, Aragon. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of such local committees — Republican-controlled town councils and militias — issued their own emergency scrip when the central government's currency disappeared from circulation. These hyper-local notes, known collectively as "billetes de necesidad," were typically printed in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper was available, and accepted only within the issuing locality itself.
Survival rates are low precisely because they were never meant to last. The Comité de Chiprana's issue is among the more obscure of the Aragonese municipal emissions.