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1 Axarco La Axarquía
| Issuer | Antonio Gámez Burgos (Private Issue) |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown throughout. At left, a vignette of a right-facing bust portrait identified as the Andalusian-Arab botanist and physician Ibn al-Baytar (rendered 'Ebh Beithar'), set against a landscape of the La Axarquía region with an arched Moorish-style architectural element in the background. Textual legends fill the central and lower fields, including a promise-to-pay inscription, account details, issuer name, and denomination in Axarcos, with a handwritten-style serial number in the upper area. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown throughout. At left, a front-facing bust portrait of King Philip II of Spain, set against a mountainous landscape of the La Axarquía region. Textual legends in the remaining fields reference the Axarquía Rebellion of June 2, 1569, together with the denomination and issuing entity, with a matching serial number. |
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La Axarquía is a comarca in Málaga province, and this 1 Axarco note is one of several locally denominated paper instruments issued in Spain during the 1980s by private individuals or associations experimenting with regional complementary currency — a phenomenon that had no legal tender status and existed in a grey zone that Spanish monetary authorities largely ignored at the time. Antonio Gámez Burgos issued this under his own name, making the personal liability explicit in a way that official currency never is.
The Axarco series is genuinely rare in collected form. Most circulated briefly within a narrow local network and were never systematically preserved.