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1 Peseta Viso de los Pedroches
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Viso de los Pedroches |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VISO DE LOS PEDROCHES Vale por 1 peseta Agosto 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Viso de los Pedroches Voucher for 1 Peseta August 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely blank, showing the unprinted plain card stock surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Viso de los Pedroches is a small municipality in northern Córdoba province, and this note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed Republican-controlled towns throughout 1936–37. With the peseta in chaos and silver coinage hoarded or melted, municipal councils across Spain were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to issue local emergency money. The thick card stock was a practical choice: it lasted longer in daily transactions than thin paper and was harder to counterfeit with rudimentary local means.
Gari catalogues several Viso de los Pedroches emissions; the -B suffix here distinguishes a variant, likely differing in serial or signature detail from the primary type.