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1 Peseta Adra
| Issuer | Adra, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ADRA (ALMERÍA) VALE PROVISIONAL (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council Adra (Almeria) Provisional voucher) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, showing only the plain unprinted paper stock, aged to a warm beige-tan tone consistent with wartime emergency issue materials. |
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Adra is a small fishing and mining town on the Almería coast, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorised local bodies to print low-denomination notes to address the chronic shortage of small coin. The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented Almería provincial emissions, but municipal issues from towns this size were printed in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, and rarely survived the war in any number.
The elongated format — notably narrow for a peseta note — is characteristic of several Andalusian municipal emissions and likely reflects the dimensions of whatever printing block or press was at hand rather than any central specification.