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1 Peseta Gata de Gorgos
| Issuer | Sección de Trabajadores del Comercio y Oficinas de Gata |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the face bears a double-rule rectangular border enclosing the full text of the promise-to-pay legend arranged in several lines around a centrally placed coat of arms of the Spanish Republic. The typography is utilitarian letterpress, consistent with locally produced Civil War emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | No 1 PESETA |
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Gata de Gorgos is a small municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like dozens of similar villages, its local trade union issued emergency fractional notes during the early Civil War period when coin had effectively vanished from daily exchange. The issuer here — the Sección de Trabajadores del Comercio y Oficinas — was the local CNT-affiliated commercial workers' branch, not a municipal authority, which makes this a union-issued rather than a council-issued note. That distinction matters for series completeness, as many collectors conflate the two types from the same town.
Production was almost certainly local, meaning print quality and paper consistency vary considerably between surviving examples. Gari Mon#703-H catalogues it as a rare emission.