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1 Peseta Valdealgorfa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdealgorfa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper bearing a single applied oval validation handstamp in blue-grey ink at centre, enclosing a small ornamental device and flanked by two five-pointed stars; the stamp identifies the validating authority and the municipality with its provincial designation. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO LOCAL DE DEFENSA VALDEALGORFA (TERUEL) |
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Valdealgorfa is a small agricultural municipality in Teruel, Aragon — deep in Republican-held territory during the Civil War. Like hundreds of Aragonese villages, it issued its own fractional paper money in 1937 after the withdrawal of silver coinage and the near-total collapse of small-change supply. These municipal emergency emissions were technically illegal under Republican treasury regulations but were tolerated out of necessity; the central government simply could not solve the small denomination problem fast enough.
Teruel province notes are among the harder Civil War locales to source, given the brutal fighting that devastated the region in the winter of 1937–38.