Catalog
1 Franco
| Issuer | Servicios Municipales / Junta de Servicios Municipales de Tánger |
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| Year | 1941-1942 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A · Canjeable en la Caja de los Servicios Municipales · TANGER, AGOSTO DE 1941 · El Jefe de los Servicios Municipales · El Interventor de Fondos · El Depositario |
| Reverse description | Violet on white. Central rectangular frame with ornamental border containing a large five-pointed star with crowned lion coat of arms at centre and Arabic inscription below. Denomination numeral 1 in circular cartouches flanking the frame at left and right. |
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Tangier in 1941 occupied an exceptionally awkward political position. The city's pre-war international administration had been suspended in 1940 when Spanish forces moved in, placing it under de facto Spanish control for the duration. The Junta de Servicios Municipales — the municipal services body — issued this fractional note to address a genuine small-change shortage, the kind of chronic coin scarcity that plagued occupied and semi-occupied territories across wartime Europe and North Africa alike.
The series to which P#3 belongs circulated alongside Spanish currency but was not backed by the Banco de España. Its authority was purely local and its acceptance entirely practical.