Catalog
1 Peseta Palma de Gandía
| Issuer | Consejería Municipal de Abastecimientos de Palma de Gandía |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock printed in black letterpress throughout, enclosed within a double ruled rectangular border. The upper half carries the issuing authority in serifed upright type, divided by a horizontal rule; the lower half presents the denomination in a larger cursive script. No vignette or ornamental underprint is present, reflecting the austere wartime emergency production. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain cream fibrous paper, largely plain save for a faint cursive manuscript inscription in pink, arching across the lower-centre of the note, likely a handwritten authorization or control mark applied at the time of issue. |
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Palma de Gandía is a small municipality in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coins disappeared entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These consejería-issued notes were strictly local instruments, accepted nowhere outside the issuing town and often redeemable only while the Republican administration remained in control.
The issuing body — the Municipal Supply Council — tells you something specific: this wasn't a general ayuntamiento issue but one tied directly to the rationing and supply apparatus. That distinction matters when dating and contextualizing these notes, as many Valencian municipalities issued through multiple bodies simultaneously in 1936–1937.