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1 Peseta Gandía
| Issuer | Sindicato Marítimo Terrestre, Puerto de Gandía |
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| Size | 110 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and blue on a green geometric guilloche underprint, the note carries a central circular vignette with a photographic image of a sailboat. The surrounding field is filled with letterpress text in two colours, with the denomination and issuing authority arranged in structured panels. Printer's imprint reads Casa Ferrer - Gandia. |
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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.