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1 Peseta Granátula
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Granátula |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#727-C |
| Obverse description | Entirely typeset in black letterpress on coarse grey-brown card stock with rounded corners. The issuer legend CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / DE GRANÁTULA is set in large bold capitals at the top, framed above and below by double rule lines, with the series designation Serie C printed in the upper right corner. The denomination Vale per UNA peseta is rendered in large display type across the centre, followed by the place and date Granátula 1.º Agosto 1937 in italic script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GRANÁTULA Vale per UNA peseta Granátula 1.º Agosto 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Granátula Valid for One Peseta Granátula August 1, 1937) |
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Granátula de Calatrava, a small Manchegan municipality in Ciudad Real province, issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Republican zone's acute small-change crisis of 1936–37. With the Civil War disrupting coin supply and the central government slow to provide replacements, hundreds of Spanish towns — particularly in Castile-La Mancha — printed their own local vales. The Consejo Municipal issues from villages of this size were rarely produced in large quantities, and many survive only in single-digit numbers.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale: smaller municipalities lacked access to proper banknote paper and used whatever the local printer had on hand.