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1 Peseta Torredelcampo
| Issuer | Torredelcampo, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on coarse card stock, enclosed within a simple double-rule rectangular border. The denomination numeral appears at upper left alongside the series designation and number at upper right, with the issuing authority text arranged in three lines across the centre field. A circular red control stamp has been applied over the face of the note. No vignette or ornamental underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 pta. Serie 3.a 8.000 El Frente Popular pagará al portador UNA PESETA Torredelcampo 4 de Octubre de 1936 (Translation: 1 Peseta Series 3rd 8,000 The Popular Front will pay the bearer One Peseta Torredelcampo, October 4, 1936) |
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Torredelcampo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this 1 Peseta note is one of hundreds of locally-issued emergency pieces that proliferated across Republican-controlled Spain in the summer and autumn of 1936. When the Civil War disrupted normal commerce and caused metallic coin to vanish from circulation almost immediately, municipal councils, trade unions, and local committees printed their own fractional currency simply to keep markets functioning. The legal basis for doing so was thin, the printing often improvised.
The Gari Monet reference number is unassigned, suggesting either that cataloging of this specific emission remains incomplete or that surviving examples are rare enough to have escaped systematic documentation.