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1 Peseta Urda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urda |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue on plain paper, enclosed within a double linear rectangular border. The issuing authority "Consejo Municipal" appears in large bold lettering across the top, with the denomination numeral "1" to the left and "pta." to the right in oversized type, separated by the locality name "URDA (TOLEDO)" on a ruled line. The lower portion carries the bearer clause text, place and date of issue, a handwritten serial number, and two manuscript signatures above the printed roles of El Alcalde and El Depositario. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a circular official ink stamp of the Consejo Municipal in red-pink, with a handwritten countersignature in blue ink crossing the centre of the stamp. No printed design elements are present. |
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Urda is a small municipality in Toledo province, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it printed its own fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal issues from this period are among the most localized monetary instruments in modern European history — legal only within the issuing town's boundaries and often worthless a few kilometers away.
The sole security feature is an official stamp, which varied in ink quality and placement across surviving examples — making forgery almost unnecessary given the note's strictly local acceptance.