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1 Peseta Chirivel
| Issuer | Chirivel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress printing in red ink on plain paper, with the issuer name underlined at the head of the note and simple geometric ornamental devices to the left. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left of the text block, serving as the principal vignette on this austerely produced municipal emergency voucher. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de CHIRIVEL Vale por UNA peseta Marzo, 1937 1 pta. (Translation: City Council of Chirivel Voucher for One Peseta March, 1937 1 Peseta) |
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Chirivel is a small municipality in the province of Almería, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it issued its own emergency paper money when coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply disrupted by the chaos of 1936–37. These local emissions, collectively catalogued under the Spanish *billetes locales* or *moneda municipal* category, were authorized under Republican decree but produced with whatever printing resources the town had on hand. Quality and survival rates vary enormously.
The Garicano-Montalvo reference gap (Mon#–) indicates this piece remains unassigned a formal catalog number, suggesting it is either poorly documented or genuinely rare in collector hands.