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1 Peseta Cheste
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cheste |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white card stock with all text in black letterpress. The issuing authority's name appears in bold capitals across the top two lines, followed by the bearer clause in spaced capitals. The denomination 'UNA' is rendered in large decorative display type at lower left, balanced by 'peseta' in bold italic at centre right above a thick rule; a signature line for 'El Alcalde Presidente' appears below, with a faint circular municipal dry stamp visible at left. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CHESTE |
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Cheste is a small municipality in the Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council stepped in to fill the coin shortage left by hoarding and wartime disruption. These emergency issues — known as billetes de necesidad — were authorized under Republican decree but produced entirely at the local level, which accounts for the variation in paper quality and the crude stamping that substitutes for any serious security measure.
The Turró and Gari catalogues between them document well over a thousand such local issues from the Valencia region alone. Cheste's entry is among the more obscure.