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1 Peseta Vall de Gallinera
| Issuer | Alcaldía de Vall de Gallinera |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is enclosed by a rectangular border of fine parallel lines with stepped corner ornaments. The central vignette consists of three overlapping circles arranged in a trefoil-like cluster, composed of a dense dot-matrix underprint, with the denomination '1 PTA.' reserved in white letterpress at the centre. Diagonal hatched triangles fill the four corners of the inner field, lending a geometric regularity to the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA. (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Vall de Gallinera is a small inland municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like hundreds of similarly modest Spanish towns, it printed its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's metal coinage essentially vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively called "moneda municipal" or "billetes locales" — were authorized under Republican decree but executed with wildly varying quality and oversight at the municipal level.
The Gallinera valley had a population of only a few hundred at the time. Notes from such micro-issuers rarely survived in quantity; most were redeemed locally or simply discarded once the war moved on.