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1 Peseta Carrión de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carrión de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on grey-green card stock, with the issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' and 'CARRIÓN DE CALATRAVA' set in bold uppercase lettering, each line separated by a horizontal rule. The denomination statement 'Vale por 1 peseta' appears in the centre field, with the date 'Junio, 1937' and a handstamped serial number at the lower left and right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CARRIÓN DE CALATRAVA Vale por 1 peseta Junio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Carrión de Calatrava Valid for 1 Peseta June, 1937) |
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Carrión de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These local issues — sometimes printed on whatever card stock was available — were authorised under the chaotic patchwork of Republican emergency monetary decrees, with no central oversight of design or production quality.
The handstamp is the only security measure, applied to authenticate individual notes after printing. On pieces this small and crudely produced, ink bleed and misaligned stamps are common enough to be considered normal rather than defective.