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1 Peseta Fiñana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fiñana |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain note printed in black letterpress on light stock, with a geometric border framing the entire face. A green square underprint is distributed across the background field. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold block lettering, with the provisional voucher text completing the legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL FIÑANA VALE PROVISIONAL (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council Fiñana Provisional voucher) |
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Fiñana is a small municipality in Almería province, and this note is a product of the acute small-change crisis that paralyzed Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. The collapse of metallic coin circulation forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many of them tiny — to print their own emergency fractional currency, the billetes de necesidad. Fiñana's issues are among the more obscure Andalusian examples in the Gari Montserrat catalogue, and the survival rate reflects that: these were printed in small runs for purely local use and rarely left the town.
The Gari Mon#647-C reference places this within a known series for the consejo, though documentation on exact print quantities is absent.