Catalog
1 Peseta Agramón
| Issuer | Pedanía de Agramón |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with corner ornaments. The issuing authority name appears at the top in italic letterpress type, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule and a small decorative element. The denomination "UNA peseta" is set in large bold type at centre, above a redemption clause and the manuscript signature of the Pedáneo (local administrator) in violet ink. |
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| Protection description | Oval violet ink stamp of the Republican Municipal Council applied to the reverse as an authentication control |
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Agramón is a pedanía — a rural administrative subdivision — of Hellín, in Albacete province. Like hundreds of Spanish villages and small municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorized local bodies to produce low-denomination fractional currency to replace hoarded coin. These hyper-local emissions were often produced with whatever printing or stamping equipment was at hand, and this 1 Peseta is no exception — the stamp impression serving as the primary authentication mark in the absence of more sophisticated security infrastructure.
Gari's cataloguing of the Agramón series distinguishes this as the B variant, implying at least one additional type exists within the emission.