1 Peseta Orihuela

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.