Katalog
Warum registrieren? Nur um Bots aus unserem Katalog fernzuhalten. Ihre E-Mail bleibt privat — wir geben sie nie weiter und senden Ihnen nichts Unerwünschtes. Das garantieren wir Ihnen!
| Emittent | Moratalla, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 1937 |
| Typ | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Peseta (1936-1939) |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Designer | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stecher | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Plain cream paper with red letterpress printing throughout; the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left, flanked by the issuing authority's text and denomination statement. A geometric double-rule border frames the entire face, with the denomination and place of issue rendered in bold block lettering. |
|---|---|
| Vorderseitenlegende | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de MORATALLA (Murcia) Pagará al portador 0`25 pesetas Moratalla, Agosto 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Moratalla (Murcia) Will pay the bearer 0.25 Pesetas Moratalla, August 1937) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Unterschrift(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Varianten | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Anmerkungen |
Moratalla is a small municipality in the Murcia region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Republican government had lost control of the metal supply, and local councils stepped in with emergency scrip — some printed professionally, many produced on whatever press happened to be available.
The validation stamp is the only security measure, which was typical of these municipal emissions and did little to prevent counterfeiting in practice. Gari's catalogue documents thousands of such issues; the survival rate varies wildly by town, and smaller Murcian municipalities are often underrepresented in collections outside Spain.