1 Peseta Menorca

Features

Issuer Island of Menorca (Province of Balearic Islands)
Period Second Republic (1936-1939)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1937
Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
Composition Brass
Weight 3 g
Diameter 19 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 1 April 1939
Number
N#
29268
References KM# 4,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
Turró# IB-2
Antoni Turró i Martínez; 2007. Les Emissions Monetàries oficials de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) / I: Andorra, Illes Balears i Catalunya (Generalitat I Locals) (1st Edition). Societat Catalana d’Estudis Numismàtics, Barcelona.

Obverse

Emblem within beaded circle

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CONSEJOS·MUNICIPALES·MENORCA
1937

Translation: Menorca Municipal Councils

Engraver: Juan Pons

Designer: Francesc Hernández Sanz

Reverse

Value above star, single olive branch at left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA
VALE POR
1 PESETA

Translation:
Spanish Republic
Valid for
1 Peseta

Engraver: Juan Pons

Designer: Francesc Hernández Sanz

Comments

The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 caused serious problems in the country's monetary system, with the disappearance of silver coins and small change in circulation. Menorca was no stranger to this fact, which was exacerbated by its isolation by remaining loyal to the Second Republic. The authorities of the Island addressed the serious problem represented by the lack of fractional currency in the Menorcan population. Therefore, the Municipal Councils agreed in 1937 to mint five coins with a total of 173,029 pieces in coins of 2.50 Pesetas, 1 Peseta, 25 Centimos, 10 Centimos and 5 Centimos, for an amount of 111,839.55 pesetas, which they began to circulate the following year, as reported by Deseado Mercadal in "The Civil War in Menorca".
The development of the drawings for the front and back of the new coins was entrusted to the historian and cartoonist Francesc Hernández Sanz, chronicler-archivist of the City Council of Maó, while the minting was carried out by the jewelry factory of Joan Torrent Torres, from Ciutadella, the architects of this work being the operators Juanito Pons, author of the dies, and Jaume Mesquisa, responsible for the production process, as Joan Pons Huguet assures in the article "Coins and bills minted in Menorca during the civil war" included in Publications from born
The minting of these coins was commissioned to the factory of Joan Torrent due to the fact of storing a large quantity of brass plates, material with which the more than 170,000 pieces were made which, obviously, lost all their legal value once the Civil war.
The reverse of the five coins presents in the central part the coat of arms of the municipalities surrounded by a circle of dots and around it the number "Municipal Councils of Menorca 1937". On the obverse, on the left, an olive branch appears and on the reverse side the inscription "República Española", while in the center the value of each coin appears on a five-pointed star.
The individual run of these coins already knew them, but it is not too much to put them. 5 Centimos=41,719, 10 Centimos=31,841, 25 Centimos=36,933, 1 Peseta=38,426 and 2.50 Pesetas=24,010. The total between all values ​​would be 172,929 units (100 units less than the projected total run).

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1937  38 426 $ 38

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