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1 Peseta Crevillente, Cooperativa de Agricultores
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Agricultores de Crevillente |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress composition in black ink on white stock, enclosed within a geometric ruled border. A red oval control stamp is applied to the note, with a serial number printed in black. The layout is entirely typographic, characteristic of Civil War-era Spanish local emergency issues, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA DE AGRICULTORES Vale al portador UNA PESETA Crevillente 1937 (Translation: Farmers' Cooperative Voucher to the bearer One Peseta) |
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Crevillente's agricultural cooperative issued its own emergency scrip during the Civil War because the Republican zone suffered an acute small-denomination coin shortage from 1936 onward — the peseta's fractional coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by a wartime economy that couldn't keep up. Hundreds of municipalities, unions, and cooperatives across Republican Spain filled the gap with locally-printed paper, and this is one of them.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: it survived handling better than thin banknote paper and was harder to counterfeit with rudimentary local means. Cataloged under Gari Mon#573-B, suggesting at least one variant exists within the same issue.