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1 Peseta Helechal
| Issuer | Colectividad de Campesinos de Helechal |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie E COLECTIVIDAD DE CAMPESINOS de HELECHAL Bono de trabajo - UNA peseta (Translation: Peasants Collectivity of Helechal Work Bond - One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | This locally issued Spanish Civil War emergency note was produced by the Peasants Collectivity of Helechal, a hamlet within the municipality of Benquerencia de la Serena, Province of Badajoz, Extremadura. Such vouchers circulated as substitute currency due to the acute shortage of small-denomination coins and fiduciary currency during the conflict of 1936–1939. No image or additional printed design is known on the reverse. |
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Helechal is a small rural municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of collectivized villages in the Republican zone issued their own local scrip when coins disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to the disruption of war. These colectividad notes functioned as wage tokens and exchange medium within a single village economy, often printed on whatever paper was available and authorized by a stamp rather than engraved by any professional printer.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, which typically indicates the piece was documented too late or too incompletely to receive a full catalog entry — not unusual for Extremaduran village issues, which survive in tiny quantities and were never systematically collected.