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1 Peseta Torremanzanas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torremanzanas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 98 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Torremanzanas pagará al portador la cantidad de UNA PESETA Torremanzanas 1.º Julio 1937. El Presidente, El Cajero, El Secretario, (Translation: Municipal Council of Torremanzanas will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta. Torremanzanas, 1 July 1937. The President, The Cashier, The Secretary.) |
| Reverse description | Typeset note printed in black on plain paper, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed at centre, flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions arranged in a structured typographic layout. |
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Torremanzanas is a small mountain village in the Alicante province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable. These consejos municipales notes were purely local instruments, often redeemable only within the issuing town, and had no validity beyond the next village.
The Gari Montllor catalog remains the primary reference for these Valencian Community issues. Small-town emissions like this one were produced in tiny quantities and rarely survived the war's end in usable condition.