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1 Peseta Adra
| Issuer | Adra, Municipality of |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#10-C |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Adra Vale por 1 Peseta No es válido sin la firma y sello (Translation: City Council of Adra Voucher for 1 Peseta It is not valid without the signature and seal) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on coarse cream-toned paper, bearing only an ink manuscript signature applied in violet-purple ink at the right side, as required for the note's validity per the obverse inscription. |
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Adra is a small fishing port on the Almería coast, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to address the chronic shortage of coin in circulation. The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented Almería provincial series, though municipal issues from towns this size were typically printed in extremely limited runs — often by local printers with no banknote experience — and saw hard daily use before being withdrawn once centralized Republican currency stabilized supply.