Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Peseta Orihuela
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Orihuela |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 98 × 62 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a partial cityscape of Orihuela flanked by two allegorical nude figures: a female figure to the left holding a sickle and a male figure to the right holding a book, rendered in a classical allegorical style. The denomination and issuing authority legends are arranged around the central composition within a decorative frame. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ORIHUELA HECHO EL DEPOSITO EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA. SERIE A (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Orihuela Made the deposit in banknotes of the Bank of Spain. Series A) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Orihuela, a city in Alicante province, was one of dozens of Republican municipalities forced to print emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the hoarding and melting of coins left daily commerce paralysed. The Consejo Municipal issues from this period were purely transactional stopgaps — locally authorised, locally printed, and seldom accepted beyond the issuing town's borders.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents this specific emission under #1044-E, suggesting variant distinctions within the Orihuela series. These local Republican notes were officially invalidated after the Nationalist victory, which drove systematic destruction. Survivors are almost entirely from collector sources rather than circulation.