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1 Peseta Alberique
| Issuer | Sindicato de Trabajadores del Campo (S.T.C.), Alberique |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on plain card stock, the obverse is framed by a fine dashed-rule perimeter border. The issuer name 'S.T.C. ALBERIQUE' appears at the top in bold uppercase letterpress, underlined by a double horizontal rule beneath which a handwritten serial number is placed. The legend 'Cupón comercial canjeable' is set in a smaller typeface above the large bold denomination inscription 'UNA PESETA' at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Una pta. (Translation: One Peseta) |
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Alberique is a small agricultural municipality in Valencia's Ribera Alta comarca, and this note was issued by its rural workers' union — the Sindicato de Trabajadores del Campo — during the Civil War period when the Republican zone faced a severe shortage of fractional coinage. These emergency issues, known as *moneda de cartón* or simply *cartones*, were produced by municipalities, unions, and cooperatives across the Republican territory to fill the gap left by hoarded or disappeared small-denomination metal currency.
The S.T.C. affiliation places this squarely within the UGT-aligned agricultural labor movement. At 48 × 30 mm on thick card, it circulated locally and almost certainly never traveled far beyond the immediate district.