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1 Peseta Gata de Gorgos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gata de Gorgos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 59 × 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" appears in bold capitals at the top, followed by "Gata de Gorgos" in a smaller serif typeface, separated from the denomination line by a bold horizontal rule. The lower portion carries the value statement "VALE POR 1 PESETA" in large bold capitals, with the numeral "1" set in a slightly contrasting weight. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Gata de Gorgos VALE POR 1 PESETA (Translation: Municipal Council Gata de Gorgos Voucher for 1 Peseta) |
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Gata de Gorgos is a small municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal series from this area is among the most geographically localized money ever formally authorized — these notes circulated within a single town and its immediate surroundings, redeemable at the issuing body alone.
The Gari Montalban reference number confirms this as a catalogued type, though surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely uncommon given the short circulation window and the chaos following Franco's advance into Valencia in 1938.