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1 Peseta Jávea
| Issuer | Jávea, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#793-E |
| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note printed in black letterpress throughout. The municipal coat of arms of Jávea, surmounted by a mural crown and flanked by lateral supports, appears in the upper left corner. To its right, the issuing authority name is set in two lines of bold serif type, separated from the denomination by a horizontal rule; the denomination 'UNA peseta' occupies the lower half in large display lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse, unprinted save for a single handwritten ink signature executed in a broad, flowing cursive script centred on the note face, applied as the authorising validation of the issuing municipal official. |
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Jávea issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War years when the Republican government's monetary system had essentially collapsed at the local level — small denominations in coin vanished almost immediately due to hoarding and melting, forcing hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own provisional scrip. The Gari Monclus catalogue documents well over a thousand distinct municipal emissions from this period, and Jávea's contribution is among the smaller, more modestly produced examples from the Valencian coast.
Survival rates for these wartime municipales vary enormously. Jávea's issues were produced in small quantities for purely local use and were typically withdrawn or simply discarded once the currency situation normalized — or, more often, once the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.