Catalog
1 Peseta Gandía
| Issuer | Sindicato Marítimo Terrestre, Puerto de Gandía |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 VALE POR UNA PESETA Sindicato Marítimo Terrestre PUERTO-GANDIA NOTA.- Este papel lo pone en circulación en esta localidad este Sindicato, por la carencia de intercambio, respondiendo el mismo de esta cantidad. Casa Ferrer - Gandia (Translation: Voucher for One Peseta Maritime Land Union Puerto-Gandia Note.- This paper is put into circulation in this location by this Union, due to the lack of exchange, and it is responsible for this amount.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Vale por 1 Peseta Puerto - Gandia (Translation: Voucher for 1 Peseta Puerto - Gandia) |
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Gandía's maritime and land workers' union — the Sindicato Marítimo Terrestre — issued these small-denomination notes during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage. Municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives across the Valencian region filled the gap with locally printed emergency currency, none of it formally coordinated and most of it only accepted within a tight geographic radius.
Union-issued scrip from port bodies is considerably less common in collections than municipal emergency issues. The Gandía harbour series in particular circulated among a working population under active wartime pressure, and attrition was high.