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1 Peseta Játiva
| Issuer | Játiva, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Blue and brown note with the issuer name carried in a ribbon across the upper field, below which a partial panoramic vignette of the town of Játiva occupies the centre. To the left, a portrait of the Spanish painter, draughtsman and engraver José de Ribera, known as El Españoleto, who was born in Játiva, is set within the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Játiva JOSE RIBERA EL ESPAÑOLETO 1 PESETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Játiva José Ribera El Españoleto 1 Peseta) |
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Játiva — known in Valencian as Xàtiva — issued its own emergency small-change notes during the Spanish Civil War, as the Republic's central government struggled to keep fractional coinage in circulation. These municipal issues filled a genuine gap: metal was being diverted to the war effort, and commercial transactions below a peseta had become practically impossible in many towns across the Levante.
The Turró and Gari Mon references place this firmly within the documented Valencian municipal series, but local paper money from this period survives unevenly — many issues were printed on poor-quality stock and saw heavy use before the Nationalist advance through Valencia in the summer of 1938 effectively ended their validity.