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1 Peseta Guadalajara
| Issuer | Guadalajara, Municipality of (Spain) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark blue ink with an ornamental floral border running the full perimeter. The municipal coat of arms of Guadalajara is positioned to the left, while the face value and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged across the central field. The note bears the emission date of 22 November 1937 in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL GUADALAJARA 1 PESETA complementarios a canjear en certificados de plata, DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA Guadalajara, 22 de Noviembre de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Guadalajara Complementary 1 Peseta to be exchanged in silver certificates, from the Bank of Spain Guadalajara, November 22, 1937.) |
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Guadalajara issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War out of sheer necessity — the Republic's coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1937, hoarded or melted, leaving local economies unable to make change. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, producing a chaotic patchwork of locally valid scrip that was worthless the moment you crossed the next town line.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a documented series for the municipality, but Guadalajara's wartime position was particularly fraught — the city had been the site of the Battle of Guadalajara just months earlier, in March 1937, where Italian forces supporting Franco were repulsed, a rare Republican battlefield victory.