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1 Peseta Calasparra
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Calasparra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#393-F |
| Obverse description | Violet letterpress on white paper with geometric guilloche-style borders at top and bottom framing the central vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, flanked by lateral floral ornaments against a red square underprint. The denomination and issuer details appear in bold typeface above and below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress text centered on a simulated parchment panel, surrounded by a geometric guilloche perimeter border. The reverse carries minimal text identifying the municipal authority, with no pictorial vignette. |
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Calasparra is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of coins collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. These locally printed necessity notes — known collectively as papel moneda local — were produced under improvised conditions and intended strictly for use within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
The Gari Monerris catalogue documents hundreds of such emissions, and Calasparra's series is among the more obscure provincial examples. Survival rates vary enormously across municipalities; smaller print runs combined with poor-quality wartime paper mean many issues are genuinely rare today.