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1 Peseta Guadasuar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Guadasuar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on pale yellow card stock, with the large numeral '1' printed in bold black at the left margin. A single-line rectangular border frames the right portion of the face, enclosing the denomination 'PESETA' at top and the issuing authority 'CONSEIO MUNICIPAL' with the town name 'Guadasuar' below, separated by a short rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale yellow reverse, largely unprinted, bearing an oval blue control stamp of the Consejo Municipal and a single handwritten manuscript signature applied in black ink at centre. |
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Guadasuar is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain in 1937, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency after the Civil War had effectively severed normal coin supply chains. The Nationalist blockade and Republican government's inability to maintain smallchange circulation forced local bodies — consells, ayuntamientos, juntas — to print their own. Most of these municipal emissions were produced in tiny quantities on whatever card stock was locally available, which is exactly what the dimensions and composition of this note reflect.
Turró and Gari both catalog this emission, which confirms it as a documented type rather than an improvised curiosity, though survivorship is predictably thin for issues of this scale.