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1 Peseta Gérgal
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gérgal |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream card stock, the field entirely occupied by the issuing authority's text in mixed roman and italic typefaces. A decorative border of repeated geometric and foliate units frames the entire face, with corner elements of stylised triangular motifs. The denomination "UNA PESETA" appears in bold capitals at the foot of the text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal DE GÉRGAL (ALMERÍA) Pagará al portador la cantidad de UNA PESETA (Translation: The Municipal Council of Gérgal (Almería) Will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta) |
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Gérgal is a small municipality in Almería province, and this local emergency note belongs to the wave of privately issued "moneda local" that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after 1936, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage created an immediate transactional crisis. Town councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses printed their own scrip simply to keep markets functioning.
The card stock construction is characteristic of many Andalusian municipal issues — paper was scarce, and whatever the local printer had on hand was used. Gari Mon#709-C is the accepted reference, though Gérgal issues are sparsely documented and survival rates for these ultra-local pieces remain poorly tracked.