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1 Peseta Muro de Alcoy
| Issuer | Muro de Alcoy, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Comercio de esta localidad entregará al portador en especie o metálico la cantidad de Una Peseta Muro del Alcoy y Mayo 1937 |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a hand-applied oval rubber stamp in blue ink, the stamp reading partially legible text referencing Muro de Alcoy, applied as a validation mark at the time of issue. |
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Muro de Alcoy is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like dozens of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when coin virtually disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in a wartime economy running on improvisation. These municipal issues were locally authorized under Republican decree and printed with whatever means were at hand.
The Gari Montllor reference corpus documents hundreds of such Valencian municipals, and the 985-D suffix indicates a distinct variety within the Muro de Alcoy listings — likely a color or typographic variant. Survival is erratic; some issues from comparable villages exist in quantity, others in single figures.