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1 Peseta Jijona
| Issuer | Conserjería de El Trabajo, Jijona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 49 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on grey-blue card stock, with the voucher legend and face value in bold black type at centre, the denomination underlined by a horizontal rule. A hand-applied oval violet control stamp of the issuing body is struck across the left portion of the note. A handwritten serial number appears at the top, with the issuer's name and locality printed in italic and roman type in the lower half. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSERJERIA EL TRABAJO H. SIRVENT JIJONA (Translation: Concierge of 'El Trabajo'. H. Sirvent. Jijona.) |
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Jijona — better known outside Spain as the town that produces turrón — issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War under the authority of the local labor council, the Conserjería de El Trabajo. These hyper-local emissions were a direct consequence of the Republican government's inability to supply sufficient coinage to small municipalities in 1936–37, with copper and silver hoarded or diverted to the war effort. Hundreds of Spanish towns issued similar notes; Jijona's are among the more obscure.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this denomination — lightweight paper would have disintegrated in daily commercial use within weeks.