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1 Peseta Santa Eufemia
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Eufemia |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in buff-tan tone with all text applied by rubber stamp in black ink. The issuer name is arranged in two lines at the top, each line underscored by a ruled horizontal stroke: 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' above and 'SANTA EUFEMIA' below. The denomination voucher clause 'Vale por 1 peseta' is stamped in the centre, with the date 'Mayo, 1937' and a sequential serial number in a larger typeface along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain buff-tan card stock, bearing faint traces of a partial oval control stamp in violet ink, the impression too worn to read fully. No printed legends or design elements are present. |
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Santa Eufemia is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, and in 1937 it sat squarely in Nationalist-held territory during the Spanish Civil War. The national currency supply was severely disrupted, and hundreds of Spanish municipalities — large and small — resorted to issuing their own emergency fractional notes and cardboard vouchers to keep local commerce moving. These municipal emissions are collectively known as *billetes de necesidad*, and the sheer volume of issuers means many remain poorly documented, which explains the absent Gari catalog number here.
The thick card construction was typical of small-town Spanish emergency issues, where proper banknote paper was simply unavailable.