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1 Peseta Oria
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Oria (Province of Almería) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Oria pagará al portador UNA pta. 1.º de Agosto de 1937 UNA peseta (Translation: The Municipal Council of Oria will pay the bearer One Peseta August 1, 1937 One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; reverse left entirely blank, showing only the plain unprinted paper stock. |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the central government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation forced individual towns to print their own. Oria, a small inland municipality in the Sierra de los Filabres, issued these notes under purely local authority — the Consejo Municipal acting as de facto monetary issuer out of practical necessity, not legal mandate.
Republican Spain's wartime emergency paper is notoriously uneven in survival rates. Notes from small Almería municipalities were often printed in tiny runs, circulated hard within a tight geographic radius, and rarely preserved once the war ended and Nationalist forces consolidated control of Andalucía.