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1 Peseta Pilar de la Horadada
| Issuer | Junta de Abastos de Pilar de la Horadada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1114-C |
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| Reverse description | Printed on the same pink paper stock, the reverse is otherwise blank save for an applied oval municipal stamp in blue ink, bearing the arms of the locality at centre and the legend ALCALDIA PEDANEA DE LA HORADADA (ALICANTE) around the perimeter, accompanied by the printed designation EL DELEGADO and the handwritten signature of the authorising official. |
| Reverse lettering | EL DELEGADO, José Albaladejo ALCALDIA PEDANEA DE LA HORADADA (ALICANTE) (Translation: The Delegate, José Albaladejo / Pedaneous Mayor's Office of La Horadada (Alicante)) |
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Pilar de la Horadada is a small coastal municipality in the southernmost tip of Alicante province, and this note is a product of the Republican zone's near-total collapse of centralized monetary supply during the Civil War. By 1937, hundreds of Spanish towns — many far larger than Pilar — were issuing their own emergency paper simply because pesetas in coin and official notes had disappeared from circulation almost entirely, hoarded, melted, or requisitioned.
The issuing body, a Junta de Abastos, was a rationing and supply committee rather than any financial institution. That such bodies ended up functioning as de facto local banks of issue illustrates how completely monetary infrastructure had fractured. Catalogued under Gari Mon rather than the standard Civil War pick references, which places it among the rarer regional emissions documented primarily through Spanish specialist literature.