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1.25 Pesetas Gor
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gor |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue ink, the reverse is dominated by a large dotted rectangular underprint border composed of small square dot elements arranged in a grid pattern, with stylised bow-tie and rosette ornaments flanking the sides. The bold face value numeral '1'25' is centred within the frame, and a serial number is printed below it. The printer's imprint 'LA GRÁFICA. ELCHE' appears along the lower margin outside the inner border. |
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| Signature(s) | G. Fernandez and F. Prasal |
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Gor is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council stepped in to plug a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage by issuing its own emergency paper. The Consejo Municipal notes were a practical stopgap — Republican-zone copper and silver had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1937, hoarded or melted down.
Printing in Elche, over 400 kilometers from Gor, points to a regional commercial printer taking on bulk work from multiple municipalities simultaneously. La Gráfica handled emergency issues for several Valencia-region and southeastern councils during this period.
The 1.25 pesetas denomination is the telling detail — fractional values like this exist precisely because exact-change problems were acute enough to require denominations that no pre-war coin had ever covered.