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1 Peseta Setla y Mirarrosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Setla y Mirarrosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in dark brown on a cream paper ground, the face is enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with stylised curtain or pilaster ornaments at each corner. A stippled dot underprint fills the interior field. The issuing authority legend appears at the top, the large-format denomination text occupies the centre, and the municipality name is set in a lower panel, all separated by horizontal rules. The printer's imprint 'Casa Ferrer-Gandía' appears in small lettering at the lower right, outside the inner border. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp, Thumbprint |
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Setla y Mirarrosa is a tiny municipality in the Valencia region, and by 1937 it was doing what hundreds of similarly small Spanish Republican councils were forced to do: printing its own emergency scrip because the central government could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. Hoarding and metal requisitioning had gutted the fractional currency supply across the zone. Casa Ferrer in nearby Gandía served several local councils during this period, supplying locally produced emergency notes of varying quality.
The thumbprint security feature is the detail worth noting — a practical, low-tech authentication measure that reflects exactly how improvised these municipal emissions were.