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1 Peseta Lorca
| Issuer | Lorca, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#827-B |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the note is framed by a decorative floral border with an overall letterpress composition. A vignette of the Lorca City Hall building occupies the central background. The text is arranged in multiple lines across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the note is enclosed within a geometric border. At centre, the local coat of arms of Lorca is flanked on the left by a figure of a worker with a sledgehammer and anvil, and on the right by a soldier bearing a bayonet alongside agricultural motifs, reflecting the Republican wartime iconography of the period. |
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Lorca's municipal emergency notes of 1937 belong to the sprawling ecosystem of locally issued Republican wartime currency — paper produced at the municipal level to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist advance through Murcia's periphery created severe shortages, and towns like Lorca were left to solve the liquidity problem themselves, with whatever printing resources were at hand.
The Gari Mon 827-B suffix indicates a distinct variety within the series, likely a signature or color variant. Survival rates for Lorca municipals are uneven — some printings circulated hard, others barely left the town hall.