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1 Peseta Ondara

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Ondara
Year 1937
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Obverse description Printed entirely in red-orange on plain paper, the obverse is divided into two zones: at left, a rectangular panel filled with a dotted guilloche underprint overlaid with a stylised architectural or grid motif and the denomination "1 Pta." set in bold type; at right, the issuer title "Consejo Municipal de Ondara" runs across the upper portion above the bearer pledge text and the issuance date. A scalloped geometric border frames the entire note, with small diamond ornaments at the corners, and two handwritten manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion alongside a violet official cachet.
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Reverse description The reverse is printed in red-orange and centres the bold denomination numeral "1" flanked by typographic ornaments, with "PTA." set below, all enclosed within a multi-ruled rectangular border composed of repeating square and diamond geometric units forming a decorative perimeter frame.
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Ondara is a small town in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government authorized this practice broadly from 1936 onward, but implementation was entirely local — the quality, design, and even the paper used varied dramatically from one ayuntamiento to the next.

Gari Montllor's cataloguing of these Valencian municipals remains the primary reference, and the 1034-C designation suggests multiple varieties exist for Ondara's 1 Peseta emission. Series letters or minor typographic differences between varieties are worth examining closely on any example.

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