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1 Peseta Villanueva de Alcolea
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villanueva de Alcolea |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1611-C |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILLANUEVA DE ALCOLEA Pagará al Portador UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Villanueva de Alcolea Will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of cream-toned paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Villanueva de Alcolea is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like dozens of similarly sized towns across Republican Spain in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the Civil War disrupted the national coin supply almost entirely. The hoarding of metal coinage — silver and copper alike — was acute enough that municipal councils were formally authorized under Republican decree to print local substitutes, though "authorized" often meant little more than tolerated after the fact.
The Gari Morera catalog documents well over a thousand such issues. This one is among the smallest physically produced anywhere in the conflict.