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1 Peseta La Garganta
| Issuer | Frente Popular de La Garganta |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain off-white card stock throughout. The issuing authority 'Frente Popular La Garganta' is set at the top in bold serif type, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule. The bearer clause 'Vale al portador' appears to the left with the denomination '1'00 Pta.' in large numerals to the right; two manuscript signatures occupy the lower portion beneath the typeset role titles 'El Presidente' and 'El Cajero'. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely blank, the plain card stock unprinted, consistent with wartime production economy typical of locally issued Spanish Civil War emergency vouchers. |
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La Garganta was a small municipality in the Extremadura region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency local currency when the Republican government's supply of small-denomination notes collapsed under wartime strain. These hyper-local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader Guerra Civil cartones and billetes locales literature — were produced by municipal authorities, trade unions, or local Popular Front committees, often on whatever card stock or heavy paper was at hand.
Gari 699-B implies a variant exists, suggesting the committee issued more than one type or revision, which was not uncommon when early printings ran out quickly or were deemed insufficiently forgery-resistant by local standards.