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1 Peseta Rótova
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Rótova |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency issue printed in blue on plain paper stock, enclosed within a border of alternating straight and wavy horizontal rules. The legend "Consejo Municipal - Rótova" is set in bold type across the upper register, with the denomination "VALE / 1 pta." in large bold letterpress characters at centre, flanked by curved rows of dots serving as decorative corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse carrying a handwritten manuscript authorising signature in black ink at centre, overlaid by a partially legible circular official stamp applied in violet ink on behalf of the Consejo Municipal de Rótova. |
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Rótova is a village in the Valencia region with a population that barely cleared 1,000 in the 1930s, which makes this note one of the more extreme examples of hyperlocal wartime emergency currency. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone fractured into hundreds of autonomous issuing authorities — municipal councils, cooperatives, trade unions — each printing their own small-denomination scrip as commercial paralysis drained coined money from circulation. Rótova's council was among the smallest to do so.
The official stamp is the only security measure, which was typical of village-level issues where printing infrastructure was whatever happened to be locally available.