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1 Peseta Cóbdar
| Issuer | Municipal Council of Cóbdar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper in dark ink, the note carries a letterpress text layout within a decorative geometric border of repeating foliate and fan motifs. The denomination 'UNA PESETA' appears in bold capitals at centre, flanked by the issuing authority text. A 'Socorro Rojo Internacional' charity stamp is affixed to the upper centre, partially obscuring the text. The lower portion bears two manuscript signatures above the positions 'El Presidente' and 'El Interventor', with a serial number box at lower left and the printer's imprint 'Papelería Lacoste - Almería' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEFENSA DE LA RIQUEZA CÓBDAR (Almería) C.M.I.F. PRESIDENCIA DEL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CÓBDAR (Almería) |
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Cóbdar is a village in the Sierra de los Filabres, Almería province, with a population that barely reached 500 in the 1930s. That a municipal council this small was printing its own currency in 1937 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage during the Spanish Civil War — Republican-held towns across the southeast issued local emergency notes because centimos and pesetas in coin had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down.
Papelería Lacoste was a commercial stationer in Almería city, not a security printer, and the production quality of notes from this shop varies considerably across the regional series. The Gari Montané catalogue documents relatively few surviving examples of the Cóbdar emission.