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1 Peseta Ráfol de Almunia
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Ráfol de Almunia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 65 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on plain paper and carries a single large central device composed of five overlapping circles arranged in a cloud-like cluster, each filled with a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint. The letters '1 PTA.' are reserved in white within the circular forms, reading as a combined monogram against the blue geometric background. The remainder of the note is left unprinted. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA. (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Ráfol de Almunia is a small municipality in the comarca of El Comtat, Valencia — a village of a few hundred inhabitants that, like dozens of comparable Valencian towns, resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican Spain's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage became operationally unworkable. These municipal issues, collectively known as "moneda local," were authorized under the Republic but executed with wildly varying degrees of craft and official oversight. A village council issuing its own pesetas was not extraordinary in 1937; the sheer number of issuing bodies across Republican territory was.
The Gari catalogue distinguishes a "-B" variant, suggesting at least two discrete printings or paper stocks exist for this denomination — worth verifying against the specific serial, if present.