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1 Peseta Porcuna
| Issuer | Porcuna, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in green ink with an ornamental border framing the entire face. The local coat of arms of Porcuna appears to the left, while the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic serves as an underprint across the field. Issuing authority text and denomination are set within the framed central area. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Frente Popular de Porcuna (Jaén) RECONOCE ESTA OBLIGACIÓN DE TESORERIA POR VALOR DE UNA PESETA Porcuna 1º. Septiembre 1936 (Translation: Popular Front of Porcuna (Jaén) Recognizes this Treasury Obligation for the value of One Peseta Porcuna, September 1, 1936) |
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Porcuna is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns in the summer and autumn of 1936, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper fractional currency after the outbreak of the Civil War severed reliable access to small-denomination coinage. The Republican zone saw a near-total collapse of coin circulation as silver and copper were hoarded or melted; local councils, cooperatives, and trade unions filled the void with whatever printing resources they had at hand.
Gari Mon catalogues three variants for Porcuna's 1 Peseta issues — this being the C type — suggesting the municipality ran at least one additional print run or modified the design during the emergency period.