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1 Peseta Chiva de Morella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chiva de Morella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper with all text printed in red letterpress throughout. The issuing authority "EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" appears at the top in large capitals, underlined by a double rule, above the promise-to-pay legend and the denomination "UNA Peseta" in bold. The place and date "CHIVA DE MORELLA, 14 mayo 1937" follow below, with the manuscript signature of the President beneath his printed title "EL PRESIDENTE," occupying the lower half of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse in a uniform cream-beige tone, bearing only incidental ink traces and minor soiling consistent with circulation wear; no design, text, or security elements are present. |
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Chiva de Morella is a small municipality in the Castellón highlands, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone silver and bronze coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These hyper-local emissions — sometimes called "moneda de cartón" regardless of actual substrate — were authorised under a patchwork of regional decrees and vary wildly in print quality, with many produced on whatever paper stock the local council could source.
The Gari Monet reference 535-B suggests a variant within the Chiva de Morella emission, though the series is poorly documented and surviving examples are genuinely scarce simply because the issuing population was tiny.