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1 Peseta Ocaña
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ocaña |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1012-C |
| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher in black on cream paper, enclosed within a simple double-rule rectangular border with small ornamental corner devices. The issuing authority's name appears at the top, followed by a handwritten serial number field, the denomination in bold uppercase letters, and the validity clause with place and date. Two facsimile signatures of the municipal authorities are printed in the lower portion, one to each side. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, presenting plain cream paper with no design or text, typical of wartime emergency municipal issues produced under minimal resources. |
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Ocaña is a small Castilian town in Toledo province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council (consejo municipal) began issuing emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. These municipal emissions — collectively documented in Gari Montaner's exhaustive catalog — were born of necessity, not monetary planning, and most had circulation confined to a single town or its immediate surroundings.
The Gari Mon#1012-C designation places this within a series of at least three known variants for Ocaña's 1 peseta issues, distinguished by signature combinations or paper stock. Pedro L. Mata and S. Ortega were almost certainly local officials rather than banking professionals.