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1 Peseta Vélez-Rubio
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vélez-Rubio |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 79 × 59 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed wartime municipal voucher in blue ink on cream paper, enclosed within a rectangular border of repeating square ornamental units. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally positioned, flanked by bold typeset inscriptions stating the denomination and issuing authority. The spare, utilitarian layout is entirely consistent with hastily produced civil-war-period emergency municipal currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Vélez-Rubio Vale por una peseta Marzo, 1937. 1 peseta (Translation: City Council of Vélez-Rubio Voucher for One Peseta March, 1937.) |
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Vélez-Rubio is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage virtually disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Consejo de Ministros had authorized local bodies to fill the gap, but standardization was nonexistent, and the result was a proliferation of hyper-local scrip redeemable, in theory, only within the issuing municipality.
Survival rates for these Almería provincial issues are uneven. Many were never formally withdrawn and simply degraded; others were bulk-destroyed after the Nationalist takeover of the region in 1939.