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1 Peseta 502nd Battalion
| Issuer | 502nd Battalion, 28th Division, 126th Mixed Brigade (Republican Army of Spain) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette on white paper with an oval guilloche frame enclosing a large bold numeral '1' above the word PESETA; the arc inscription 502-BATALLÓN runs across the upper register, with floral corner ornaments and fine latticework fill. The lower arc bears the unit designation 28 DIVISION - 126 BRIGADA MIXTA. |
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| Reverse description | Plain design centred on the face value and issuing unit designation, enclosed within geometric border elements. The denomination is stated twice in full and the battalion and brigade references are repeated, serving as the internal validation text of this military voucher. |
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Military scrip issued by a Republican Army unit during the Spanish Civil War — a category of emergency local currency that proliferated at the brigade and battalion level when central Republican supply and pay structures broke down. Individual units were often left to organize their own internal exchange, producing notes of wildly varying quality and authority. The 502nd Battalion's issue is among the more precisely documented examples, with the AL reference confirming its cataloguing in Allepuz's specialized work on Spanish Civil War military scrip.
Survival rates for these battalion-level issues are low. Most circulated only within a single unit, were rendered worthless almost immediately upon disbandment or defeat, and were rarely preserved.