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1 Peseta Torreblascopedro
| Issuer | Torreblascopedro, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress text within a simple linear border vignette, with the face value flanked by olive branch ornaments; a hammer and anvil device appears to the left as a symbolic labour motif. The entire composition is typographically set, consistent with locally produced Civil War-era emergency currency. Date and issuing authority are integrated into the central text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PAGARA AL PORTADOR 1 PESETA TORREBLASCOPEDRO 1 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council Will Pay the Bearer 1 Peseta Torreblascopedro September 1, 1937) |
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Torreblascopedro is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency fractional issues produced by Republican-held towns during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist advance through the south had choked the supply of small-denomination coinage by 1937, forcing municipalities — some with populations under a thousand — to print their own substitute currency just to keep local commerce moving.
The Gari Monetary catalog entry for this series suggests extremely limited survival. Most of these municipal issues were printed in tiny quantities, circulated hard within a single town, and had no redemption value once the war ended.