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1 Peseta Cieza
| Issuer | Frente Popular Antifascista de Cieza |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper, bearing a central embossed dry seal of the issuing authority visible as a blind stamp, with show-through of the obverse letterpress text faintly legible from the opposite side. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Templado (El Presidente), A. Semitiel (El Cajero) and A. Galindo (La Comisión de Hacienda) |
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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.