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1 Peseta Motril
| Issuer | Motril, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink paper, the face is enclosed within a geometric border frame. To the left, a small local emblem depicts a tower surmounted by two flags. All text is set in plain typographic lettering, with no vignette or guilloche ornamentation, consistent with the utilitarian production methods of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité Central Permanente de Enlace U. H. P. MOTRIL 1 PESETA Este billete tiene valor solamente dentro del Término Municipal de Motril (Translation: Permanent Central Liaison Committee U.H.P. Motril 1 Peseta This banknote has value only within the Municipal Term of Motril) |
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Motril is a coastal town in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, it issued its own fractional paper money during the Civil War period when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. These local emergency notes — known generically as "papel moneda local" — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often by local print shops with no security printing experience whatsoever.
The Garicano-Moragas reference number places this firmly within the documented Andalusian municipal issues, but survival rates for Motril's series are notably low, likely reflecting the town's turbulent passage between Republican and Nationalist control during 1937.