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0.10 Pesetas Manuel

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Manuel
Year 1937
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Value 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP)
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Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal MANUEL Vale por 0`10 Ptas.
(Translation: Municipal Council Manuel Voucher for 0.10 Pesetas)
Reverse description Plain card stock reverse bearing a partially legible oval official stamp in violet ink, applied by hand, with no printed design or text.
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Manuel is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns across Republican Spain, it issued its own fractional currency during 1937 when the Civil War had effectively dissolved normal coin circulation. The hoarding of metallic coinage — particularly copper and nickel — forced municipal councils to print their own emergency scrip, a phenomenon so widespread that specialized catalogs like Turró now document thousands of distinct local issues.

The Gari and Turró references confirm legitimacy, but hyper-local issues from villages this size were produced in small quantities and rarely traveled far. Survivors tend to show heavy use or, paradoxically, none at all.

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