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1 Peseta Requena
| Issuer | Requena, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is framed by a geometric and floral border with letterpress inscriptions in dark ink. A central vignette portrays a male farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat, his raised hand holding a sickle, set against a rural landscape with a farmhouse in the background. The denomination and issuing authority appear within the framing elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD AGRICOLA / CNT REQUENA 1 PESETA (Translation: Agricultural Collectivity / CNT Requena 1 Peseta) |
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Requena is a wine-producing town in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed almost immediately after July 1936. These local issues — collectively known as "billetes de necesidad" — were authorized under Republican decree but designed, printed, and distributed entirely at the local level, which accounts for the enormous variation in quality and survival rates across the series.
Requena's issue is catalogued under both Turró and the Gari monetary reference, a dual citation that reflects genuine collector interest in the Valencia region's municipal emissions. Condition problems are common: the paper stock used by most Valencian municipalities in this period was poor, and notes that passed through active circulation rarely survived intact.