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1 Peseta Abla
| Issuer | Abla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue, the note is framed by a geometric border with the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic positioned to the left. The central text block carries the issuing authority, denomination, and date in letterpress. A structured typographic layout defines the overall composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ABLA 1 peseta 25 Septiembre de 1.937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Abla 1 Peseta September 25, 1937.) |
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Abla is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it printed its own emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936–37. The Generalitat and Republican government could not supply enough small change to keep local commerce moving, so municipalities filled the gap themselves — often with little more than a rubber stamp, a local printer, and whatever paper was available.
The Gari Mon designation places this squarely within the documented Almería regional issues, though survivorship among these hyper-local wartime pieces is always uneven. Abla's issues are rarely seen outside Spanish specialist collections.