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1 Peseta Conquista
| Issuer | Conquista, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress design enclosed within a linear rectangular border, centred on an allegorical seated figure of the Spanish Republic wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a torch, with the Republican coat of arms at her feet. Inscriptions in capital letters identify the issuing Municipal Council of Conquista, Córdoba, and declare the note's exclusively local validity. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Republican coat of arms flanked by two cornucopias below, all set within a decorative floral perimeter frame. The denomination is rendered in plain type against the unadorned ground. |
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Conquista is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone commerce collapsed under a near-total shortage of small change — centimos coins had been hoarded or melted, and the central government was slow to fill the gap. These municipally issued notes, generically called "billetes locales," were produced with whatever printing resources were available locally, which is why the typographic quality varies so sharply from town to town.
The Gari Monerris catalog remains the primary reference for this material; few of these Conquista issues have been systematically tracked for survival rates.