Catalog
1 Peseta Cieza
| Issuer | Frente Popular Antifascista de Cieza |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#538-A |
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| Obverse lettering | Prente Popular Antifascista CIEZA VALE AL PORTADOR POR 1 PESETA Emisión acordada por el Pleno para atender al pago de jornales y que serán reintegrados por este Frente Popular El Presidente, EL CAJERO, La Comisión de Hacienda, J. TEMPLADO A. SEMITIEL A. GALINDO (Translation: Anti-Fascist Popular Front Cieza Bearer voucher for 1 Peseta Issuance agreed by the Plenary to meet the payment of wages and that will be refunded by this Popular Front The President, The Cashier, The Finance Committee, J. Templado A. Semitiel A. Galindo) |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Cieza is a small market town in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local Popular Front committee was forced to print its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Frente Popular Antifascista de Cieza filled that void with locally produced paper, authenticated by nothing more sophisticated than an embossed dry seal and three hand-applied signatures.
Three signatories — the president, the cashier, and a treasury commission representative — was a deliberate safeguard against unilateral issue, common in the better-organized municipal emissions of 1936–37.