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1 Peseta Ballestar
| Issuer | El Ballestar, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BALLESTAR EMISIÓN 1937 Certificado de UNA peseta de curso legal en esta localidad, para facilitar el cambio, según acuerdo de este Consejo. Su validez se acredita con el sello de este Consejo, estampado al dorso. (Translation: Municipal Council Ballestar Issue 1937 Certificate of One Peseta of legal tender in this town, to facilitate the exchange, according to the agreement of this Council. Its validity is accredited with the seal of this Council, stamped on the back.) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse bearing the handstamped seal of the Consejo Municipal de Ballestar, applied as the sole means of validation, in accordance with the text stated on the obverse. No additional printed design elements are present. |
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El Ballestar is a tiny municipality in the Maestrazgo region of Castellón, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-held communities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency in 1937 when the collapse of small-denomination coinage made day-to-day commerce nearly impossible. The Republican government had formally authorized local emergency issues in 1936, which gave these village notes a technical legitimacy even as their practical reach rarely extended beyond the issuing town itself.
Gari Mon #226-B suggests a series variant — likely a difference in signature, stamp color, or serial numbering rather than a plate change. Survival rates for Maestrazgo municipal issues are uneven; many were redeemed and destroyed, others simply lost when villages changed hands.