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1 Peseta Monzón
| Issuer | Consejo Administrativo de la Colectividad de Monzón |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light grey-blue paper stock bearing a violet rubber-stamp impression centered on the face, applied in a multi-line letterpress format. The stamp renders the full issuing authority legend in uneven, hand-applied ink with slight misalignment across lines, characteristic of wartime emergency issues. No vignette, guilloche, or ornamental underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO ADMINISTRATIVO DE LA COLECTIVIDAD DE MONZON (Translation: Administrative Council of the Collectivity of Monzón) |
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Monzón, a town in Aragón, came under anarcho-syndicalist administration during the Spanish Civil War, and like dozens of other Republican-held municipalities it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin circulation collapsed entirely after 1936. The Consejo Administrativo governing these local collectives operated outside normal banking channels — these notes were backed by nothing more than local trust and the expectation that the Republican economy would eventually stabilize. It did not.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, which typically indicates the cataloger recorded the type but could not confirm enough surviving examples to establish a full listing. Genuine specimens from Monzón turn up rarely.