Catalog
1 Peseta Darro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Darro |
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| Size | 67 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress, with the issuing authority's name arranged across the upper portion in a graduated typeface. A faint oval municipal stamp in violet ink is applied to the centre, bearing the legend of the Consejo Municipal de Darro. The denomination appears in bold display type at the lower right, with the promise-to-pay clause set in a smaller face above. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse of plain cream paper stock, with no typeset or engraved elements, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Darro is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional notes during the Civil War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Banco de España had hoarded silver; the public followed suit. Municipal councils stepped in with whatever printing they could arrange locally, which is why these notes vary so wildly in paper quality, typography, and execution.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents over a thousand such issuers. That this one survives at all is more accident than design — most were redeemed, rejected, or simply wore out within months.