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1 Peseta Orcera
| Issuer | Orcera, Municipality of |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed coupon on cream paper stock, enclosed within a double rectangular border with a stippled square-dot ornamental band running along all four inner edges. The upper register carries the coupon number designation, separated from the central field by a full-width rule; the central field presents the denomination in bold sans-serif type, with the issuing municipality name occupying the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse consisting solely of the plain cream paper stock, bearing no design elements, text, or security features of any kind. |
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Orcera is a small municipality in the Sierra de Segura, Jaén province, and this 1 Peseta note belongs to the vast ecosystem of emergency local currency — moneda local de necesidad — that proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the 1936 military rising caused an immediate collapse in small-denomination coin circulation. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives printed their own scrip simply to keep daily commerce functioning.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within that documented series. Notes from minor Andalusian municipalities in this format are among the more difficult to locate today, as production runs were small and most surviving examples were discarded once the wartime emergency passed.