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1 Peseta Cantavieja
| Issuer | Comité Antifascista de Cantavieja |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress voucher on cream paper stock, entirely text-based with no pictorial vignette. The word "VALE" appears in large capitals at the top, followed by the denomination "una peseta" in bold mixed-case type of varying size. The issuing authority "Comité Antifascista de Cantavieja" is centred beneath a horizontal rule, with three signatory caption lines — Presidente, Cajero, and Contador — arranged across the lower field; the year "1936" is placed at the lower right. The composition is enclosed within a single rectangular dark brown border. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on cream paper stock with visible fibre inclusions throughout, enclosed within a single faint rectangular border rule. The surface bears no text, imagery, or underprint of any kind. |
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Cantavieja is a remote hilltop village in the Maestrazgo region of Teruel, and its antifascist committee was among dozens of locally constituted bodies that printed emergency small-denomination notes during the summer and autumn of 1936 when Republican Spain's coin supply effectively collapsed. Fractional coinage had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July uprising, and municipalities, trade unions, and impromptu committees filled the gap with whatever printing resources they could access.
These hyper-local issues were redeemable only within their immediate community. Outside Cantavieja, this note was worthless paper — which is precisely why so few left the village at all.