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1 Peseta Vallibona
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Vallibona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock with all text letterpress-printed in red. The denomination "UNA peseta" appears at the top, preceded by four bold horizontal rules of diminishing length that form a simple decorative device to the left. Below, the issuing authority "EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / Vallibona" is set in two lines of varying weight, followed by a narrow vertical rule ornament at centre. The promise-to-pay legend "Pagará al portador UNA peseta" is printed in a larger, bolder typeface across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA peseta EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Vallibona Pagará al portador UNA peseta (Translation: One Peseta The Municipal Council Vallibona Will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
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Vallibona is a tiny mountain village in the Maestrat region of Castellón, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya and the central Republican government both attempted to address the coin shortage, but supply never caught up with demand, and small communities were left to improvise. These hyper-local emissions — often hand-numbered, rubber-stamped, or typed on whatever paper was available — circulated only within the issuing municipality, accepted on trust rather than any formal guarantee.
Vallibona's population during the 1930s barely exceeded a few hundred souls, which means issue quantities were almost certainly negligible. Survival rates for notes from communities this size tend to be low simply because so few were printed to begin with.