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1 Peseta Los Gallardos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Los Gallardos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue letterpress on plain paper, the face is enclosed within a geometric border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left, with the issuing authority and denomination rendered in typeset text across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LOS GALLARDOS 1 peseta 26 de Julio de 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Los Gallardos / 1 Peseta / July 26, 1937) |
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Los Gallardos is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Civil War had effectively removed coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipal issues, collectively catalogued under the broader "billetes de necesidad" category, were produced locally with whatever printing resources the town had at hand, which is why the production quality varies so dramatically across the series.
Gari Mon#693-C places this within a documented sequence for Los Gallardos, though surviving examples are genuinely scarce — small Almería province issues rarely made it into major collections, and most circulated until they disintegrated.