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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Agres |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue ink, with the issuer name underlined at centre and geometric underprint patterns across the field. The denomination numeral and abbreviated value appear at upper left, with the redemption pledge text arranged in horizontal registers below the issuer heading. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper reverse, bearing a single circular official rubber stamp impression in violet ink applied at centre-right as a validation mark. |
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| Comments |
Agres is a small municipality in the comarca of El Comtat, Alicante province. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage — silver had been hoarded and copper diverted — forcing hundreds of Spanish towns to issue their own emergency paper money under the aegis of local councils. These municipally issued notes, collectively called "billetes locales" or "moneda local de guerra," were authorized by the Republican government from 1936 onward as a stopgap measure.
The Consejo Municipal series from Agres is genuinely rare; the town's population was small, issue quantities were correspondingly low, and survival rates for this class of wartime local scrip are poor. The Gari Monografies catalog remains the primary reference for Valencia-region municipal issues.