Collectors are ready to spend fortunes for rare documents and tickets. A simple ticket can thus reach crazy sums depending on the specialists.
If the coins and the tickets tend to disappear little by little in favor of payment by bank card or directly on our smartphones, some old copies continue to panic the collectors. In France, certain pieces of francs or in euros if they are rare prints, can be worth their value to advance. This is also the case with our neighbors, especially when these pieces or tickets alone tell a history page!
This is particularly the case in Spain where tickets from the civil war period or Francoism have already reached record auctions. But a particular ticket, however of the smallest value there is, a peseta, completely makes lovers of Iberian numismatics crazy.
The ticket for a peseta is special since it was then replaced by a room. Certain specific series like that of July 1953 are even more sought after by collectors. The copy in question was printed in Madrid on July 22, 1953 precisely. His obverse represents the portrait of the Marquis de Santa Cruz, an eminent Spanish soldier from the 16th century, recalls the Andalucia Info media. On the back, we find the illustration of a galleon, the most important ship of the Spanish armada at that time.
Although the facial value of this post would not exceed a few euros today (1 peseta is estimated at around 3 euros), collectors are ready to pay up to 20,000 or even 25,000 euros for an authentic and well -preserved copy of this special series. An amount that cheerfully exceeds the price of a small new car!
This post of a peseta of 1953 is however not an exception in the world of Spanish numismatics. Other old cuts also reach sums at 4 or 5 digits. This is the case of the 100 pesetas ticket bearing the image of the Lady of Elche, printed during the civil war. Most of the copies were confiscated and destroyed by the nationalist camp in 1939, making it a very rare room. It can be negotiated between 15,000 and 20,000 euros. Another very popular ticket is that of 1000 pesetas representing the Alcazar of Toledo, one of the first vignettes in the series dating from the civil war. He easily reached 3,600 euros during sales between collectors.
So if you have family ties in Spain or have kept following a trip of old pesetas tickets at the bottom of a drawer or a box, it may be time to take them out and have them assembled. Some could reserve you very nice surprises!
Keeping old pieces or having forgotten them in a drawer is not so rare. If the euro has replaced peseta as a legal official currency in Spain at the turn of the 2000s, it would still remain the equivalent of 1.575 billion euros in unchanged pesetas, sleeping in the pockets and houses of the Spanish according to the specialized press. A little treasure sleeps so maybe still in a corner …