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1 Peseta Alcolecha
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alcolecha |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in violet ink, with the issuer name underlined at the top and a dotted geometric pattern serving as an underprint across the face. The text block, centered on the note, sets out the reimbursement obligation in a formal declaratory style. Border lines frame the composition on all sides. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, otherwise blank, bearing a hand-applied oval blue ink municipal stamp reading "MUNICIPAL ALCOLECHA" around a central heraldic shield of Alcolecha; a second partial rubber stamp impression with ornamental scrollwork appears to the lower left. |
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Alcolecha is a tiny municipality in the Alicante province — population under three hundred even in the 1930s — and its wartime emergency scrip belongs to the vast proliferation of locally issued paper money that emerged across Republican-held Spain after the Civil War disrupted coin supply beginning in 1936. The Nationalist blockade of silver and the hoarding of metallic currency left rural councils with little choice but to print their own.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Valencian Community emissions, though survivorship for village-level issues this small is genuinely poor. Many were redeemed locally and pulped; others simply disintegrated in use.