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1 Peseta Noblejas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noblejas |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with a dotted guilloche border framing the entire face. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal de Noblejas' appears in bold lettering across the top. To the left, the denomination 'UNA Peseta' is printed in large bold type, while the central field carries a handwritten serial number preceded by 'N.°' and the legend 'Vale para transacciones locales'. At the foot of the note, two signature lines identify the President ('M. Rodriguez') and the Depositary ('R. Garcia'), with the printer's imprint 'Imp. Consejo Proval — Ocaña' below. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, as was customary for this type of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency voucher, which was frequently printed on the backs of pre-existing documents bearing unrelated printed text or designs. |
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Noblejas is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and this note is a product of the fractional currency chaos that swept Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. The collapse of coin circulation — driven by hoarding, melting, and the simple disruption of war — forced hundreds of local councils to print their own emergency scrip. The Consejo Municipal de Noblejas was one of thousands that did exactly that.
The printer, Imp. Consejo Proval in nearby Ocaña, handled emergency issues for several Toledo-area municipalities during this period. Ocaña itself was taken by Nationalist forces in autumn 1936, which likely terminated any further production runs after that point.