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1 Axarquillo La Axarquía
| Issuer | Antonio Gámez Burgos (Said de la Alquería del Gamal) |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on white paper. To the left, a vignette of a right-facing bust identified as Ibn al-Baytar (Ebh Beithar), the medieval Andalusian botanist and pharmacist (1216), accompanied by a landscape vignette of the La Axarquía region and an Arab-style horseshoe arch. The denomination '1 Un Axarquillo' appears in the lower area, with handwritten serial number in brown ink above the main text block. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on white paper. A front-facing bust vignette of King Felipe II of Spain occupies the central field, set against a mountainous landscape vignette evoking the Axarquía sierra. The serial number appears in brown ink, with text referencing the Morisco revolt of June 2, 1569. |
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The Axarquillo is a privately issued local currency tied to the comarca of La Axarquía in Málaga province, part of a broader movement in late-1980s Spain experimenting with alternative exchange systems rooted in cooperative economics. Antonio Gámez Burgos — known locally as Said de la Alquería del Gamal — was the driving figure behind it, issuing notes intended for circulation within a specific network of producers and traders in the region's agricultural communities.
These notes occupy a genuinely odd legal and numismatic space: not scrip in the wartime sense, not fantasy, but a functioning alternative currency issued by a named private individual.