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1 Peseta Salsadella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Salsadella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency issue on thick card stock in blue ink, enclosed within a plain double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top — "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" above "SALSADELLA" — followed by a handwritten serial number prefixed "Núm.", and the bearer clause "Pagará al portador" above the large-type denomination "UNA peseta" at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on plain thick card stock, uniform in tone with the note's off-white ground, bearing no text, imagery, or embellishment of any kind. |
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Salsadella is a small municipality in the comarca of Baix Maestrat, Castellón province. During the Civil War, the Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation pushed hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many with populations under a thousand — to issue their own emergency paper. These consell municipal notes were technically illegal under central authority but were tolerated out of necessity, and most circulated only within the issuing village.
The Gari Montserrat catalogue documents over a thousand such local emissions from the 1936–39 period. Salsadella's issue is among the less frequently encountered ones, reflecting the town's small size and correspondingly limited print run.