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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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| Obverse lettering | 1'00 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VALDEALGORFA 1 PESETA De curso obligatorio en la localidad y canjeable en Depositaría. Mayo, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Valdealgorfa 1 Peseta Mandatory legal tender in the locality and redeemable at the Depository. May, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single oval validation handstamp applied in blue-grey ink at centre. The stamp reads 'CONSEJO LOCAL DE DEFENSA / VALDEALGORFA (TERUEL)' around the inner perimeter, with a small five-pointed star at each lateral extremity of the oval. |
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Valdealgorfa is a small municipality in the Bajo Aragón district of Teruel province. This note was issued by its local council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government authorized — and ultimately could not control — a torrent of emergency municipal currency known as billetes de necesidad. With national coin disappearing from circulation as metal was hoarded or requisitioned, hundreds of towns issued their own fractional paper simply to keep local commerce functional.
The validation stamp is the only security feature, which was typical for issues of this scale — the council's authority rested entirely on local recognition, not on any technical barrier to forgery.