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1 Peseta Cervera del Maestre
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cervera del Maestre |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale green paper, the note is framed by a continuous floral guilloche border composed of repeating quatrefoil rosette units. The issuing authority appears in cursive script across the upper portion, with the locality name centred beneath a short rule. The bearer clause and denomination are set in italic letterpress below, followed by a hand-stamped serial number in the lower right area. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Cervera del Maestre Pagará al portador la cantidad de Una Peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Cervera del Maestre Will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta) |
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Cervera del Maestre is a small hilltop village in Castellón province, and like hundreds of other Spanish Republican municipalities in 1937, its town council issued its own fractional currency when coin circulation collapsed entirely during the Civil War. These hyper-local emissions — sometimes running to just a few hundred pieces — were produced with whatever printing resources were locally available, which for most small pueblos meant very little.
The Garrió Montagut catalog reference places this within the vast, poorly-documented world of Catalan and Valencian wartime municipal paper. Survival rates for issues from villages this size tend to be low simply because the issuing population was small and redemption, where it happened at all, was chaotic.