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1 Peseta Polopos
| Issuer | Delegación de Abastos, Municipality of Polopos |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on blue-grey paper stock, with all text in black ink on an unadorned field. A continuous geometric border of interlocking oval and lozenge motifs frames the entire face. The issuing authority legend appears in bold uppercase at the top, separated from the denomination statement by a double rule, with the value rendered in a larger cursive-style typeface in the lower half. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL (GRANADA) |
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Polopos is a small municipality in Granada province, and notes of this type belong to the wave of hyperlocal emergency scrip issued across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the disappearance of coin from circulation forced even the smallest ayuntamientos and local bodies to produce their own fractional paper. The Delegación de Abastos — the local rationing and supply authority — was an unusual issuer even by the chaotic standards of 1936–1939, reflecting how deeply administrative functions had fragmented at the municipal level.
The Gari Mon reference is incomplete, which is unsurprising: many of these micro-issues were never formally catalogued during their brief circulation and survive in tiny numbers almost by accident.