Catalog
1 Peseta Zarra
| Issuer | Pascual Rubio Estanco, Zarra |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1653-C |
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| Obverse lettering | PASCUAL RUBIO ESTANCO ZARRA VALE Una PESETA (Translation: Pascual Rubio Tobacco shop ZARRA It's worth One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Largely unprinted reverse on plain white paper, carrying a bold handwritten ink signature of Pascual Rubio in the upper portion, accompanied by a faint partial stamp impression visible in the centre and traces of the dotted border frame bleeding through from the obverse. |
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Zarra is a small municipality in Valencia's inland comarca of Ayora-Cofrentes, and this note is one of thousands of hyper-local emergency issues produced across Republican Spain during the Civil War after the hoarding of metallic coin stripped small communities of any practical means of exchange. Estancos — state-licensed tobacco shops — were among the more unusual issuers, their proprietors issuing scrip on personal authority simply to keep commerce moving at the village level.
The Gari Mon census, which remains the primary reference for these Valencian municipales, lists this as catalogue number 1653-C, implying at least two earlier varieties from the same issuer.