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1 Peseta Traiguera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Traiguera (Province of Castellón) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL TRAIGUERA Núm. 0507 Pagará al Portador UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Traiguera Will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
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| Protection description | Oval municipal stamp applied in ink to the reverse as the sole authentication measure. |
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Traiguera is a small municipality in the northern Castellón interior, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency scrip when the Republican government's currency supply broke down in 1936–37. These consejos municipales notes were never formally authorized by the central Republican treasury — they emerged out of pure necessity, backed by nothing more than local trust and the stamp of the issuing body.
The thick card stock was deliberate: thinner paper stocks were being consumed by larger printing operations, and municipalities made do with whatever was available. Most Traiguera pieces were redeemed or destroyed once Republican monetary consolidation efforts reached the region, which keeps surviving examples genuinely scarce.