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1 Peseta Almácera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almácera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#129-C, TurróPV#167 |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse validated by a hand-applied oval blue ink stamp of the Presidencia del Consejo Municipal de Almácera enclosing the municipal coat of arms at centre, accompanied by a handwritten signature in blue ink to the right. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied oval blue ink municipal stamp of the Presidencia del Consejo Municipal de Almácera on the reverse, accompanied by a manuscript signature |
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Almácera is a small municipality just north of Valencia, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during 1937 when coin shortages made small-denomination commerce nearly impossible. The central Republican government formally authorized this practice in September 1936, but production was entirely local — quality, paper weight, and design varied town by town, sometimes block by block.
The Turró and Gari catalogues between them document thousands of these municipal issues; the Almácera 1 Peseta is cross-referenced as TurróPV#167, placing it within the Valencia Province sequence. The official stamp served as the primary authenticity control in the absence of any sophisticated printing infrastructure.