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1 Peseta Pinatar
| Issuer | Municipio de Pinatar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red on plain cream paper stock, enclosed within a decorative rectangular border of repeated dot-and-dash guilloche pattern. The issuer name MUNICIPIO DE PINATAR is set in large capitals at centre, with the denomination VALE por UNA peseta in bold below; the series letter and serial number are typeset in black in the upper register. A handwritten ink signature of the Interventor appears above the guarantee clause at foot, reading Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Nº MUNICIPIO DE PINATAR Circulación local VALE por UNA peseta El Interventor, Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Series A / No. / Municipality of Pinatar / Local circulation / Value for One Peseta / The Controller, / Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain) |
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Pinatar — today known as San Pedro del Pinatar, in Murcia — was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued their own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost immediately following the July 1936 uprising. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the "billetes locales" or "moneda de guerra" heading, were produced under no central authority and with no standardization whatsoever — each municipality improvised printing, denominations, and backing entirely on its own.
The Gari Montllor reference places this firmly within documented Murcian emergency issues, but Pinatar was a small coastal salt-industry town, and surviving examples are genuinely uncommon.