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1 Peseta Almoradí
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Almoradí (Municipality of Almoradí) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on plain paper, the note is enclosed within a geometric border composed of ruled lines and corner rosette ornaments. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in bold letterpress type, followed by the bearer clause and the denomination UNA Peseta in large display lettering centred on the face. The date of issue and place name are set below the denomination, with three manuscript signatures appearing beneath, attributed respectively to El Secretario Interventor, El Depositario, and El Alcalde. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALMORADI PAGARA AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE UNA Peseta ALMORADI 1º DE FEBRERO DE 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Almoradí will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta. Almoradí, 1st of February 1937) |
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Almoradí is a small agricultural town in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province, and like hundreds of Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it resorted to locally issued paper when the central government's coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unreachable. These municipal emergency issues, collectively known as "billetes de necesidad," were produced under wildly variable conditions: some by commercial printers, others by local print shops with whatever type and stock was available.
The Gari Monerris catalogue remains the authoritative reference for Valencian Community issues of this type. Survival rates for small-denomination Almoradí notes are low — the town was badly damaged by flooding in 1987, which affected several local archives and private collections.