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1 Peseta Tomelloso
| Issuer | Tomelloso, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress text and a rectangular perimeter frame on a light brown underprint, with a central vignette of a soldier holding a rifle in one hand and a sickle in the other. The text block occupies the majority of the face, setting out the formal authorization of the note by the Municipal Council of Tomelloso. |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress text and a rectangular perimeter frame surrounding a central vignette of the crowned local coat of arms, flanked symmetrically by two ears of wheat and two bunches of grapes, evoking the agricultural character of the region. The denomination and expiry notice appear in the lower portion of the design. |
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Tomelloso is a wine-producing town in the La Mancha plain of Ciudad Real province, and its 1937 municipal emergency notes belong to the sprawling category of papel moneda local issued across Republican-held Spain when the Civil War caused catastrophic small-denomination coin shortages. Hundreds of municipalities printed their own scrip that year, often with minimal technical resources and no banking infrastructure whatsoever.
The Gari Morancho catalog remains the primary reference for these local Spanish issues, and the 1429-F designation places this within a well-documented but condition-sensitive series — the thin wartime paper used for most Republican municipal scrip is prone to edge tears and fold splits.