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1 Peseta Chirivel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chirivel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink, with the issuer's name underlined across the upper register and a geometric decorative vignette to the left. The central text block carries the denomination and validity statement in a plain serif typeface, with the date of issue appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cream-white paper stock, bearing only a handstamped serial number in the central field and a manuscript notation in the upper right corner. |
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Chirivel is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure worth speaking of — these notes were produced by whatever local means were available, which is why the typographic and paper quality varies so dramatically between surviving examples of the same denomination.
Gari Montllor's cataloguing of Spanish Civil War municipal issues remains the primary reference for this material, and the 533-D designation suggests multiple known varieties exist for Chirivel's 1 Peseta alone.