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1 Peseta Gualchos
| Issuer | Consejo Obrero Campesino de Gualchos |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale UNA PESETA Consejo Obrero Campesino GUALCHOS (Granada) VALOR DEPOSITADO REINTEGRABLE EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA. EL DEPOSITARIO (Translation: It is worth One Peseta. Peasant Workers Council, Gualchos (Granada). Deposited value refundable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain. The Depositary.) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO OBRERO CAMPESINO - GUALCHOS - (Granada) |
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Gualchos is a small municipality in the Alpujarras region of Granada province, and this note was issued by its wartime workers' council — the Consejo Obrero Campesino — during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. Hundreds of municipalities, trade unions, and local committees across Loyalist Spain printed their own fractional currency between 1936 and 1939, most of it crude and short-lived. This one was printed commercially by Papelería Lacoste in Almería, which gave it marginally better production quality than the hand-stamped cardboard tokens issued by many comparable villages.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device — a deliberate low-tech solution given the circumstances. Gari Mon#743-A places it within Andreu Castañer Gari's cataloguing of Catalan and Spanish local emergency issues.