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1 Peseta Mislata
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mislata |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress note on cream paper, enclosed within an ornate rectangular border of scrollwork and foliate guilloche. The upper portion carries the issuer name in Gothic blackletter script, with the denomination 'Vale por Una peseta' in bold roman type below. Three manuscript signatures in red ink appear at the foot under the role titles Depositario, Interventor, and Presidente, accompanied by a circular red validation stamp at left; the printer's imprint 'Casa Farinetti Valencia' is set in small type at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Mislata VALE POR Una peseta DEPOSITARIO INTERVENTOR PRESIDENTE (Translation: Municipal Council of Mislata Voucher for One Peseta Depositary Comptroller President) |
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Mislata is a small municipality immediately west of Valencia, and like dozens of similar towns across the Republican zone, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small change that had paralyzed retail trade from the first months of the Civil War. The hoarding of coins — copper, silver, anything metallic — forced municipalities into the printing business whether they had any business being there or not.
Casa Farinetti was a Valencia commercial printer with no particular pedigree in security printing, which is exactly who these councils hired. The notes circulated only within Mislata and were worthless anywhere else.