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1 Peseta Colomera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Colomera |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal' appears at the top in bold type, followed by 'COLOMERA (Granada)' in smaller capitals beneath a decorative horizontal rule with three vertical tick marks. The denomination 'UNA peseta' is set in large bold type at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with applied paper reinforcement strips across the corners and edges. A circular violet municipal stamp, partially legible, is struck centrally and reads 'COLOMERA' along the lower arc. Handwritten numerical notations appear in ink at the upper right corner. |
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Colomera is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued emergency paper scrip during the Civil War years when metallic coin effectively vanished from everyday trade. These local municipal notes — known as "moneda local de necesidad" — were produced under improvised conditions, often with little more than a rubber stamp and whatever paper was to hand. The Gari Montserrat catalogue documents enormous variation in quality across this class of issue, and survivability correlates directly with how actively the town functioned as a circulation point during the conflict.