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1 Peseta San Javier
| Issuer | San Javier, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on plain paper, the note is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. A vignette of the El Estacio lighthouse atop a promontory at the entrance to the Estacio channel occupies the central field. The obligatory text, affirming the Municipal Council's pledge to redeem the note in Banco de España banknotes, is arranged around the vignette in letterpress type. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 octubre 1937 REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA 1 Pts. (Translation: October 1, 1937 Spanish Republic 1 Peseta) |
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San Javier is a small municipality on the Mar Menor coast in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it was forced to issue its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos. These local emissions, collectively catalogued under the Guerra Civil series, were legal only within the issuing municipality and accepted nowhere else.
The Gari Montllor reference places this among the better-documented Murcian pieces, but survival rates for village-level emissions are inherently poor — thin production runs, low-quality wartime paper, and no institutional interest in preservation.