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1 Peseta Sueca
| Issuer | Sueca, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PTA CONSEJO MUNICIPAL · SUECA · LA TESORERIA MUNICIPAL pagará al portador UNA PESETA SUECA 1 DE JUNIO DE 1937. (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council · Sueca · The Municipal Treasury will pay the bearer One Peseta Sueca June 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red, the reverse carries the issuer's name within a top ribbon cartouche, with a perimeter border composed of fruit and foliate vignettes. A central vignette presents a manor house or civic building with classical columned facade, rendered in the simplified style typical of locally produced wartime emergency notes. |
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Sueca is a small agricultural town in Valencia's rice-growing lowlands, and its 1937 municipal emergency notes were issued because the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising — left local commerce effectively paralyzed. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same thing that year, but the legal basis was always improvised; the Republican government eventually tried to rein in the proliferation through a 1937 decree requiring central authorization, which many localities ignored.
Turró catalogues this as PV#1358, placing it firmly within the Valencia province series. Paper quality across the Sueca emissions varies considerably, and ink strike inconsistencies are common.