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1 Peseta Monte López Álvarez
| Issuer | Alcaldía de Monte López Álvarez |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper with simple letterpress typography in black ink, framed by two thin horizontal rules at the top and bottom edges. The issuing authority name is printed in bold serif capitals across the upper portion, with the denomination statement rendered in a larger, bolder typeface in the lower half. No vignette, underprint, or ornamental elements are present, reflecting the austere production typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | ALCALDIA DEL MONTE LÓPEZ ÁLVAREZ Vale por UNA peseta (Translation: Mayoralty of Monte Lopez Alvarez Voucher for One Peseta) |
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Monte López Álvarez is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper scrip during the Civil War years when Republican-zone municipalities faced an acute shortage of small change — copper and silver coinage had essentially vanished from circulation by mid-1936, hoarded, melted, or simply gone.
The Gari reference lacks a catalog number, which typically means the compilers documented the type's existence without having examined a confirmed specimen. Surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely rare simply because production runs were small and local redemption after the war was imperfect at best.