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1 Peseta Lorca
| Issuer | Lorca, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 65 × 35 mm |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text and vignette on plain paper, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. An allegorical female figure, seated and holding a torch in one hand and a sword in the other, leans against the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic; a cornucopia rests at her feet and a lion stands behind her. The denomination legend is printed in the surrounding text. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LORCA 1 PESETA UNA PESETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Lorca 1 Peseta One Peseta) |
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Lorca's municipal emergency notes of 1937 belong to the wave of locally issued billetes de necesidad that flooded Republican-held Spain once the Civil War disrupted the normal supply of small-denomination coinage. The Banco de España had largely ceased providing fractional currency to areas behind Republican lines, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own. Lorca, a market town in Murcia, was among them.
The extreme dimensions — barely a third the height of a standard peseta note — reflect a deliberate economy of paper stock, not a design choice. These were utility objects, and most were destroyed or lost within months of issue.