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1 Peseta Cox
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cox |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#571-B |
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| Obverse lettering | EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE COX Pagará al portador la cantidad de UNA PESETA COX, 10 DE MARZO 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Cox Will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Cox, March 10, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, otherwise unprinted, validated by two hand-applied purple ink stamps — an oval municipal stamp reading "ALCALDIA DE COX" enclosing the town coat of arms, and a circular stamp reading "FRENTE POPULAR U.H.P. (Alicante)" — accompanied by two handwritten signatures in blue ink. |
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Cox is a small municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province. This note was issued by the local ayuntamiento during the Spanish Civil War under the emergency currency decrees that permitted Republican municipalities to produce their own small-denomination paper to address the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never restocked as the war disrupted supply chains from Madrid.
Municipal issues from villages this size were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, and distributed almost exclusively within the issuing township. Very few made it out of circulation intact.