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1 Peseta Calles
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Calles |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#405-B, TurróPV#458 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on plain card stock with no pictorial vignette. The word 'UNA' is printed in large bold capitals occupying the left half of the note, while the issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de CALLES' appears in the upper right in mixed typefaces with rule separators, and the denomination 'peseta' is set in bold lower case in the lower right, underlined by a rule. The entire composition relies solely on typography for visual effect, typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA peseta Consejo Municipal DE CALLES (Translation: One Peseta Municipal Council of Calles) |
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Calles is a small municipality in Valencia's comarca of Alto Palancia, and like dozens of similarly obscure Spanish towns, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities requisitioned metallic coinage for the war effort. The Consejo Municipal's 1 Peseta note is catalogued under both Gari and Turró's regional references, placing it firmly in the documented but numerically scarce category of Valencian local issues.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice — flimsy paper wore out too quickly for notes intended to substitute for coins in everyday small transactions. Survival rates for these municipal cartones are nonetheless poor; most were redeemed or simply discarded once the wartime shortage passed.