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1 Peseta Onil
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Onil |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 87 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PTA. Consejo Municipal de Onil La Depositaría de este Consejo, reintegrará al portador Una peseta (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Onil The depository of this Council, will reimburse the bearer One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse save for a single hand-applied circular validation stamp in violet ink, positioned off-centre to the left, bearing the legend "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" along the upper arc and "ONIL" completing the inscription, serving as the sole authentication mark on an otherwise blank field. |
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Onil is a small town in Alicante province, best known historically for its toy manufacturing industry. This note was issued by the local municipal council under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across Republican-held Spain after the military uprising of July 1936 drained the country of its small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply disrupted in distribution. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities printed their own paper and cardboard substitutes, and Onil was among them.
The Garrió Monerris catalog reference places this among the rarer Valencian Community emissions, where survival rates for these wartime municipals are uneven at best.