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1 Peseta Orba
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Orba |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue letterpress on plain paper, the design is framed by a rectangular border of fine linear rules. To the left, an oval vignette contains the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, flanked by small square ornamental devices. The issuing authority and redemption clause are set in capital and mixed-case typography across the centre of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue letterpress on plain cream paper, the face value 'Una Peseta' is set in large bold display type at centre, flanked by dotted oval vignettes enclosing concentric circle ornaments with scrollwork corner devices. The month 'JULIO' appears above and the year '1937' below the central oval, all contained within a pointed elliptical dotted frame. |
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Orba is a small municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like hundreds of similar communities across the Republican zone, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after silver and bronze coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. These municipally-issued pieces — broadly catalogued under the Spanish Civil War local issues — were legal only within the issuing municipality, a restriction that mattered very little in practice when the nearest town might be kilometers of rough road away.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the established specialist literature for Valencian Civil War paper. Survival rates for Orba issues are low; the town's population was small, print runs were accordingly modest, and most circulated hard until they disintegrated.