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1 Peseta El Toro
| Issuer | Consejo de Economía Local de El Toro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress text on an ocher and light greenish-yellow underprint, with a left-facing portrait vignette of Hans Beimler at center. A dedicatory legend above the portrait reads "Los que dieron todo por la Libertad" (Those who gave everything for Freedom), while the note's issuing authority, denomination, and date appear in the surrounding text. The overall composition is characteristic of hastily produced Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | Los que dieron todo por la Libertad HANS BEIMLER EL CONSEJO DE ECONOMÍA LOCAL PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR UNA PESETA EN MONEDA NACIONAL EL TORO 15 ENERO 1937 (Translation: Those who gave everything for Freedom Hans Beimler The Local Economy Council Will pay the bearer One Peseta in national currency El Toro, January 15, 1937) |
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El Toro is a small municipality in Castellón province, Valencia. During the Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency paper currency. This note is one of those issues, authorized under the decentralized economic councils that proliferated across Republican-held territory in 1937.
Municipal issues from inland Castellón villages are among the scarcest in the entire Spanish Civil War local currency series. El Toro had a population of only a few hundred at the time, meaning total print runs were correspondingly tiny.