See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

1 Peseta Real de Gandía

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Real de Gandía
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Size Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Printer Log in to see details
Designer(s) Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Plain typeset note printed in black letterpress on white card stock, with the issuer name underlined at the top. The denomination is stated in full in the body text, followed by three signature lines for the President, the Paying Officer, and the Treasurer.
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse lettering REAL DE GANDÍA - POVIO - TRESORIO
Signature(s) Log in to see details
Protection type Log in to see details
Protection description Log in to see details
Variants Log in to see details
Comments

Real de Gandía is a small municipality in Valencia, and this 1 Peseta note is one of the hundreds of emergency local issues that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after metallic coins effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1937. The Consejo Municipal — a wartime administrative body replacing the pre-war ayuntamiento structure — issued these on its own authority, as the Republican central government had neither the logistical capacity nor the political leverage to supply adequate small change to every Valencian town.

The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: thinner paper deteriorated rapidly in daily handling, and municipal treasuries could not afford reprinting runs. Survival rates for these hyper-local issues vary wildly, with many series known from only a handful of specimens.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE