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1 Peseta Fortuna
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Fortuna |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark violet and green, the note is enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned at top centre, above the issuing authority text and the denomination stated in a smaller typeface. The overall layout is typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, with letterpress text forming the primary design. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE FORTUNA (Murcia) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR UNA peseta EMISIÓN 22 FEBRERO 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Fortuna (Murcia) Will pay the bearer One Peseta Issue February 22, 1937) |
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Fortuna is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional paper money when Republican-zone copper and silver coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively catalogued under the billetes locales or cartones — were authorised under desperate practical necessity rather than any formal monetary framework, and their acceptance rarely extended beyond the issuing municipality's own market.
The Gari Montaner cataloguing system remains the primary reference for Spanish Civil War municipal issues, though surviving population data for Fortuna-specific pieces is thin. Condition problems with this series typically stem from the poor-quality wartime paper used across virtually all Murcian local emissions.