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1 Peseta Orihuela
| Issuer | Orihuela, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1044-A |
| Obverse description | Text-dominated design enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. A portrait vignette of Manuel Azaña Díaz, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, is positioned to the left, flanked by the handwritten authorization text. The date of issue, February 1, 1937, is incorporated into the main legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Ayuntamiento de Orihuela pagará al portador la cantidad de una peseta Orihuela 1º. Febrero 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Orihuela Will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Orihuela February 1, 1937) |
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Orihuela, a mid-sized Alicante province municipality, was one of hundreds of Spanish Republican-controlled towns that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to wartime disruption. These municipal emissions were authorized under the Republican government's 1936 decree permitting local authorities to produce low-value substitute currency, and they circulated purely within their issuing municipality's boundaries.
The Gari Mon catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War locals, and the 1044-A designation suggests a single known type for Orihuela at this denomination — no recorded varieties or signature combinations appear to complicate attribution.