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1 Peseta Manises
| Issuer | Manises, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in red ink, with the issuer name and vale inscription arranged in bold capital lettering across the face of the note. A row of seven small circles forms an underline beneath the issuer name, serving as a rudimentary decorative and security element. The denomination and validity clause are set in smaller type below, with the serial number added by hand in black ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MANISES VALE por: UNA pta. Este vale no será válido si no va refrendado por este Consejo. (Translation: Municipal Council Manises Voucher for: One Peseta This voucher will not be valid if it is not endorsed by this Council.) |
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Manises, a ceramics-producing town just west of Valencia, was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's central government authorized local authorities to print their own small-denomination scrip in 1936–37. The national coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or displaced — leaving a desperate shortage of change that neither Madrid nor the regional authorities could adequately address.
The Gari Monovar reference gap suggests this specific note has not been definitively catalogued or attributed in the standard corpus, which is not unusual for the smaller Valencian municipal emissions of this period. Many were printed in tiny runs by local print shops with no surviving documentation.