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1 Peseta Helechal
| Issuer | Colectividad de Campesinos de Helechal |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on greenish paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuer's name is set in bold capital letters across the upper half, with the locality name in a mixed typeface below, separated by a short rule. The denomination inscription appears in the lower half in bold serif type, with a series letter designation in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie E COLECTIVIDAD DE CAMPESINOS de HELECHAL Bono de trabajo - UNA peseta (Translation: Peasants Collectivity of Helechal Work Bond - One Peseta) |
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Helechal is a small rural municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of collectivized villages in the Republican zone issued their own local scrip when coins disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to the disruption of war. These colectividad notes functioned as wage tokens and exchange medium within a single village economy, often printed on whatever paper was available and authorized by a stamp rather than engraved by any professional printer.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, which typically indicates the piece was documented too late or too incompletely to receive a full catalog entry — not unusual for Extremaduran village issues, which survive in tiny quantities and were never systematically collected.