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1 Peseta Laroya
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Laroya |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on buff paper, enclosed within a multi-rule border composed of alternating dotted and ornamental repeating motifs at the perimeter. The issuer's name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LAROYA' appears in bold capitals at the upper field, flanked by small interlaced oval vignettes, with the denomination 'UNA PESETA' set in large bold type to the left and the redemption clause to the right. A manuscript signature of the depositary appears in the lower central area above the printer's imprint. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain buff paper surface with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Laroya is a village in the Almería province of southeastern Spain — its population during the Civil War era barely exceeded a few hundred souls. The Consejo Municipal issued emergency fractional paper during the 1936–1939 conflict specifically because small coinage had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936, hoarded or melted down across Republican-held territory. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, producing an enormous and chaotically documented family of local emergency notes.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería served several of these small Andalusian councils, which is one reason the physical production quality is generally more consistent than notes run off on improvised local presses.