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1 Peseta Albaida
| Issuer | Albaida, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Greenish-blue and black note framed by a wide ruled border, with a vignette portrait of Pablo Iglesias — politician and founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the General Union of Workers (UGT) — positioned centrally. The issuer name and denomination appear in bold letterpress above and below the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Blue note with symmetrical floral vignettes flanking a central view of the Castle-Palace of the Milán de Aragón, seat of the Marquises of Albaida, rendered with a tree in the foreground. The overall composition is framed within a plain ruled border consistent with the wartime emergency issue format. |
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Albaida is a small town in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to address the acute shortage of coin. The Consell Municipal de la Vila d'Albaida printed these notes locally, and the series is catalogued in both Turró and the Gari Monograph — a reasonably well-documented survival for a provincial emission of this kind.
Wartime municipal notes from the Valencia region suffer disproportionately from humidity damage, and the Albaida issues are no exception.