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1 Peseta Catral
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Catral |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink on plain paper, enclosed within a rectangular border composed of repeating hatched dash elements forming a double-rule frame. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de Catral' is set in large bold display type at the top, followed by the bearer clause and denomination in mixed roman and bold lettering, with the date 'Catral, Marzo de 1937' centred below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot under the printed titles 'El Presidente' and 'El Depositario', with the printer's imprint 'Imprenta Alonso — A medi Control U.G.T.' running along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº [serial] * C Consejo Municipal de Catral Pagará al portador la cantidad de UNA peseta. Catral, Marzo de 1937. El Presidente, El Depositario, Imprenta Alonso.— A medi Control U. G. T. (Translation: Municipal Council of Catral / Will pay the bearer the amount of ONE peseta. / Catral, March 1937. / The President, / The Depositary, / Printed by Imprenta Alonso — Under UGT Control.) |
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Catral is a small agricultural municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of small coinage almost immediately after July 1936 — hoarding was universal and the central government could not supply fractional currency fast enough. Hundreds of town councils across Republican territory were authorized, and in many cases simply forced by necessity, to issue their own emergency paper. Catral's municipal council was one of them.
Printed locally by Imprenta Alonso, this is genuinely hyperlocal emergency scrip — produced and intended to circulate within a single small town and its immediate surroundings. Provincial issues of this kind rarely traveled far.