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1 Peseta María
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de María |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de MARIA Vale por UNA PESETA Mayo, 1937. 1 peseta (Translation: Municipal Council of María Valid for One Peseta May 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing two applied violet rubber stamps: a smaller oval stamp to the upper left and a larger circular municipal validation stamp at centre, partially legible; a handwritten numeral notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal notes printed across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the hoarding of metal coinage — copper and silver alike — created a near-total breakdown of small-change transactions. Local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses issued their own paper fractions to keep commerce moving. The Consejo Municipal of María, a small Almería province village, was no exception.
Gari Mon catalogues this as 884-A, suggesting at least one variant exists. Provincial emergency issues from Almería are among the less-documented of the Spanish War series.