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1 Peseta Burriana
| Issuer | Unión Mercantil Burriana |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on pale olive-grey paper, with a simple ruled border forming an outer frame and an inner rectangular panel. The issuer name is split across the left and right vertical margins — "UNIÓN" reading upward on the left and "BURRIANA" reading downward on the right — while "MERCANTIL" is set horizontally across the top. The central panel carries the denomination "Valor 1 pta." in bold mixed serif lettering, below which "PROVISIONAL" appears in spaced capitals, followed by a serial number line; the printer's imprint "Imp. Alonso.- Burriana" runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNIÓN MERCANTIL BURRIANA Valor 1 pta. PROVISIONAL Núm. Imp. Alonso.- Burriana |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coinage from circulation forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities and local commercial bodies to issue their own emergency paper. Burriana's Unión Mercantil — a local merchants' association in a town whose economy ran heavily on citrus export — produced this fractional note to keep retail trade moving when the Republic's central banking apparatus could not supply adequate change.
Printed locally by Imp. Alonso, the entire production run was essentially municipal in scope, redeemable only within the town. Few survived in any condition once the war ended and the Nationalist peseta was imposed.