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1 Peseta Guadix
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal Administrativo de Guadix |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#741-F |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on white paper with an ornamental floral border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the right, while the central field carries the issuing authority's full title and the promise-to-pay text. The denomination is stated in the upper left, with the issue date and place of issue rendered in a formal script at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PTA. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIVO GUADIX El Consejo pagará al portador UNA peseta, en moneda usual y corriente. Guadix 15 de Enero de 1938. (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Administrative Council Guadix The Council will pay the bearer One Peseta, in usual and current currency. Guadix January 15, 1938.) |
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Guadix, a small city in Granada province, was in Republican hands during the early years of the Civil War, and like hundreds of other municipalities it issued emergency fractional currency when the central government's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos of mobilization. These local emergency emissions, known collectively as "moneda municipal," were authorised under a 1937 Republican decree but produced with wildly varying quality and security.
The Consejo Municipal Administrativo — the administrative council that replaced the pre-war ayuntamiento structure in Republican zones — had no printing infrastructure of its own. What that meant in practice for surviving examples is worth examining closely.