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1 Peseta Cantoria
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cantoria (Municipality of Cantoria, Province of Almería) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note with blue text on a yellow square underprint. A geometric border frames the perimeter. The denomination '1 Pta.' appears at top, with issuer and voucher inscriptions in the central field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. AYUNTAMIENTO DE CANTORIA VALE PROVISIONAL (Translation: 1 Peseta City Council of Cantoria Provisional voucher) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage in the Republican zone forced hundreds of municipalities across Spain to print their own emergency paper. Cantoria's 1 Peseta note is one of these — a purely local stopgap, issued under authority of the Ayuntamiento to keep petty commerce moving when fractional currency had effectively ceased to exist.
The Gari Monetary catalogue (Mon#442) remains the primary reference for these Spanish municipal emissions, many of which survive in tiny quantities simply because the issuing towns were small and production runs were limited accordingly.