Catalog
1 Peseta Deifontes
| Issuer | Deifontes, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on salmon-toned paper stock, the obverse carries a vertical group of parallel rules forming a striped rectangular block to the left, with the denomination inscription arranged in two lines to the right. A set of horizontal rules of varying thickness runs along the lower portion of the note, the heaviest rule forming a solid bar at the base. The design is entirely typographic and geometric, executed by letterpress with no vignette or pictorial element. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain salmon-toned paper with no typographic or decorative elements, save for a faint circular official stamp applied in grey ink at centre, bearing text that reads in part around the arc, along with a handwritten numeral notation in the upper right corner. |
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Deifontes is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War period, it issued its own emergency paper currency when coins vanished from circulation after 1936. These hyper-local municipal notes — often produced with whatever printing resources existed in the town — rarely survived in quantity. Most were redeemed or simply discarded once the war resolved local supply chains one way or another.
The Gari Monerris reference being incomplete suggests this piece remains inadequately catalogued, which is itself meaningful: Andalusian municipal emissions from smaller villages are among the least documented in the entire Spanish local currency literature.