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1 Peseta San Lorenzo de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de San Lorenzo de Calatrava |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with all text contained within a thick double-line rectangular border. The issuing authority is set in bold type at the top, followed by the municipality name in large display lettering and the provincial designation in parentheses; the denomination numeral and word appear at the foot. The austere, text-only composition is characteristic of rudimentary wartime emergency issues produced without specialist printing facilities. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain cream-coloured card stock, left entirely blank consistent with the rudimentary production methods of this provisional Civil War-era voucher. |
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San Lorenzo de Calatrava is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha — not a place one expects to find a currency-issuing authority. This note is a Civil War emergency issue, one of thousands of locally-printed fractional pieces that flooded Spain between 1936 and 1939 when Republican-held towns found themselves without small change. The Consejo Municipal stepped in as a de facto monetary authority purely out of necessity, with the central government in no position to supply coinage to every village in its territory.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice — paper of this weight was harder to counterfeit with improvised means, and it wore better in pocket circulation than thinner issues from comparable municipalities.