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1 Peseta Cinctorres
| Issuer | Unión Comercial de Cinctorres |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on plain cream-coloured card stock, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of interlocking foliate and geometric ornaments with stylised corner and midpoint embellishments. The upper portion bears the issuer's name in two lines of serif capitals, separated from the denomination by a thin horizontal rule. The denomination 'UNA Pta.' is set in large bold serif type in the lower half, dominating the composition. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain cream-coloured paper, bearing a handstamped serial number in black at centre and a partially legible violet official stamp to the right, with faint letterpress text visible above the serial number. The surface is otherwise unadorned. |
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Cinctorres is a village in the Maestrat region of Castelló with a population that barely reached 600 during the Civil War years. Like hundreds of Valencian and Catalan municipalities, it issued its own fractional paper money after the Republic's small-change crisis of 1936 stripped coins from everyday commerce — silver and copper were hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July uprising. The Unión Comercial, a local merchants' collective, backstopped these notes with the combined credit of its members rather than any banking authority.
The Gari Mon catalogue distinguishes a B variant for this denomination, suggesting at least one earlier emission preceded it.