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1 Peseta Onda
| Issuer | Onda, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed text in red ink within a rectangular border formed by a bold ruled frame. The municipal coat of arms of Onda is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed across the face. The overall layout is typographic in character, consistent with emergency municipal issues of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Peseta Consejo Municipal de Onda. 15 Mayo 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Onda. May 15, 1937) |
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Onda is a small ceramic-industry town in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it printed its own emergency small change during 1937 as Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. These local cartones — effectively cardboard tokens in note form — were produced under wartime improvisation, not by any central printing authority. Quality of materials and execution varied wildly from one town to the next, and Onda's issues reflect the ad hoc nature of the whole programme.
The Gari catalogue remains the primary reference for this chaotic class of Civil War municipal paper; without it, attribution would often be impossible.