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1 Peseta Velefique
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Velefique |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red ink, with a geometric border frame enclosing the text field and a green guilloche underprint providing background decoration. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the right of the central text block. The printer's imprint of Papelería Lacoste of Almería is set at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, largely blank, with a single oval municipal control stamp applied in blue-violet ink to the right half of the note, the text of which is partially legible through show-through from the obverse. |
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Velefique is a village in the Sierra de los Filabres, Almería province, with a population that never exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. This note was issued by its municipal council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos — and hundreds of Spanish municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional currency. Papelería Lacoste in Almería supplied several such councils across the province.
The Gari Montllor catalogue documents two varieties for this issue; this is the B type.