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1 Peseta Garcia
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Garcia |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PESSETA El Consell Municipal de Garcia pagarà al portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA GARCIA, el 22 de Juny del 1937 Paper-moneda de curs obligatori en aquesta vila (Translation: 1 Peseta The Municipal Council of Garcia will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Garcia, June 22, 1937 Mandatory course paper-money in this town) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA VILA DE GARCIA (Translation: City Council of the town of Garcia) |
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Garcia is a small municipality in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional issues produced by Catalan town councils during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to print their own small-denomination currency to address the acute shortage of coin. The Consell Municipal — the revolutionary council structure that replaced traditional local government in Republican territory — functioned as the issuing authority.
The sole security measure was a municipal rubber stamp, applied by hand. Forgery was theoretically possible but economically pointless given the hyperlocal circulation and face value involved.