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1 Peseta Formentera del Segura

Issuer Ayuntamiento de Formentera del Segura
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse description Typeset letterpress voucher printed in blue-grey ink on plain paper, with a ruled guilloche-style border running along all four edges. The denomination 'UNA peseta' is set in bold display type at the top, with the remaining text in a smaller roman face. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower half, attributed to the Mayor (El Alcalde) at left and the Treasurer (El Depositario) at right, each accompanied by a printed title legend.
Obverse lettering VALE POR UNA peseta a responder de cantidad depositada en esta Alcaldía. Formentera del Segura 15 Abril 1937.
El Alcalde,
El Depositario,
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Formentera del Segura is a small municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province — Republican territory throughout the Civil War. Like hundreds of other Spanish ayuntamientos cut off from reliable coin supply after 1936, the town council authorized its own emergency fractional currency. These local issues, collectively known as moneda municipal, were produced under no central oversight and varied wildly in print quality and legal standing.

The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented corpus, but Vega Baja issues from minor municipalities are consistently underrepresented in surviving collections. The countersignatures of the alcalde and the depositario were the only validation these notes carried.

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