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1 Peseta Palmera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Palmera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-toned card stock bearing a large oval official rubber stamp in violet ink at centre, enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Palmera surmounted by a crown. The circular legend around the stamp reads "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE" at top and "PALMERA" at foot, flanked by small star ornaments. Two handwritten manuscript signatures cross the face diagonally. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, unprinted salmon-toned card stock. |
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Palmera is a tiny municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal had no banking infrastructure — these notes were authorized locally, printed on whatever stock was available, and accepted only within the immediate community.
The thick card construction was a deliberate choice against counterfeiting and wear, though at this scale of circulation neither was a serious threat. Survival rate is high relative to use, simply because so few ever changed hands far from where they were made.