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1 Peseta Polícar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Polícar |
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| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Polícar, pagará al portador la cantidad de... UNA PTA. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Polícar, will pay the bearer the amount of... One Peseta) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Polícar is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War years of 1936–1939 when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. These municipal notes — collectively known as billetes locales or moneda de cartón — were produced locally, often without professional printing resources, and their legal backing was nothing more than the issuing council's authority and an official stamp.
The Gari reference number being unassigned suggests this piece has not been formally catalogued in the standard Spanish Civil War local issues literature, which is itself a detail worth noting for researchers.