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1 Peseta Bocairente
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bocairente |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 94 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. Número Consejo Municipal BOCAIRENTE 1937 Bono de arbitrio Municipal EL PRESIDENTE, EL DEPOSITARIO, NOTA.-Este bono es canjeable en este Consejo. (Translation: 1 Peseta Number Municipal Council Bocairente 1937 Municipal Arbitration Bond The President, The Depositary, Note.- This bond is redeemable at this Council.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, showing only the plain unprinted paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Bocairente is a small textile-producing town in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its council stepped in to fill an acute shortage of small change after metallic coins effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936. The Republican government authorized local emergency issues but exercised almost no control over design or quantity — decisions were made at the town hall level, which is why these provincial notes vary so wildly in quality and printing method.
The Turró and Gari catalogues between them document well over a thousand distinct Spanish Civil War municipal issues; Bocairente's series is among the more obscure, and surviving specimens in any condition are genuinely uncommon in the specialist market.