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1 Peseta Algimia de Alfara
| Issuer | Municipality of Algimia de Alfara (Province of Valencia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally placed within an oval cartouche, flanked on both sides by symmetrical geometric ornamental designs. The issuing authority and denomination are inscribed in a typeset border arrangement surrounding the central vignette. The overall layout is printed in a single color with simple letterpress execution typical of wartime municipal issues. |
| Reverse lettering | Serie A. 1877 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - ALGIMIA DE ALFARA - UNA PESETA (Translation: Series A. 1877 Municipal Council - Algimia de Alfara - One Peseta) |
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Algimia de Alfara is a small agricultural municipality in the Camp de Morvedre comarca, and like hundreds of similar towns across the Republican zone, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during 1937 when the Civil War had effectively destroyed normal coin circulation. The centimos and low-denomination peseta coinage that should have been handling everyday transactions had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from commerce — leaving municipal councils with no practical option but to print their own.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the essential reference for these Valencian community emissions, many of which survive in very small quantities given their purely local scope and the disruption that followed the Nationalist advance into Valencia in 1938–39.