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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 description | Typeset emergency issue printed in black on white paper, with a decorative serrated outer border composed of repeated typographic ornaments enclosing the entire face. The denomination "UNA PESETA" is set in bold letterpress type on the left, alongside the legend "Vale" above, while the issuing authority "Consejo Obrero Campesino / GUALCHOS (Granada)" appears across the upper right, separated by a fine rule. The lower portion carries the guarantee text and a handwritten signature of the depositary, with the printer's imprint "PAPELERIA LACOSTE-ALMERIA" at the foot. |
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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.