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1 Peseta Urrácal
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urrácal |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on plain paper stock, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with decorative corner elements. The oval coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed to the left of the central text block. The note bears a circular official municipality stamp in violet ink applied over the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the back of a pre-existing document, showing inverted letterpress text from the original printed source — an address reading 'PLAZA GALAN Y GARCIA / HERNANDEZ NUMERO 4' — along with a partially visible circular violet municipality stamp. A dotted border with ornamental corner devices frames the entire surface, consistent with the obverse layout. |
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Urrácal is a small municipality in the province of Almería, and like hundreds of similarly obscure Spanish villages, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small coin supply effectively collapsed in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal — the local governing council — became an unlikely monetary authority by default, printing chits that functioned as change in the complete absence of anything official.
Notes from this level of issuer were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper and printing equipment the town had available. Survival rates are low not because of heavy circulation but because almost nobody thought to keep them.