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1 Peseta Oropesa

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Oropesa
Year 1937
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Obverse description Typeset letterpress note printed in black on light blue-grey card stock, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears in bold capitals at the top, with 'OROPESA' centred beneath a pair of horizontal rules. A serial number field ('Núm.') occupies the centre, with the denomination statement 'Vale por UNA peseta' in bold letters at the foot.
Obverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL OROPESA Vale por UNA peseta
Núm.
(Translation: Municipal Council Oropesa Voucher for One Peseta / No.)
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Oropesa is a small municipality in Toledo province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone commerce ground to a halt after hoarding stripped coins from circulation almost entirely. These consejo municipal notes were produced locally — often by the town printer, sometimes by hand-stamped sheets — with no central oversight and wildly inconsistent quality control. The thick card stock used here was a practical response to the fragility of thin paper under daily handling in a wartime village economy.

Gari Mon #1046-D indicates a catalogued variant within the Oropesa sequence, suggesting at least minor typographic or compositional differences exist across the series.

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