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1.50 Pesetas Álora
| Issuer | Álora, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink-red card stock, the obverse carries bold typeset legends across three lines, with rows of small dashes forming border rules along the top and bottom edges. A circular violet control stamp of the Comité Ejecutivo de Álora is applied at upper left, partially overlapping the text. The note is entirely typographic in character, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR una peseta cincuenta cts. ALORA (Translation: Voucher for One Peseta Fifty Centimos Álora) |
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Municipal fractional currency issued during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of small-change supply forced hundreds of towns across Republican-held Spain to produce their own emergency notes. Álora, a small agricultural municipality in the province of Málaga, was among them. The 1.50 pesetas denomination is an oddity — most municipal emissions stuck to round figures or simple fractions, making this a practical outlier, likely calculated to cover a specific local wage or market transaction.
The Gari Monferrer reference number is unassigned, suggesting this piece had not been fully catalogued at the time of Gari's census.