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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Agudo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL AGUDO (C. Real) Vale por 1 peseta No Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Agudo (Ciudad Real) / Valid for 1 Peseta / No. / September 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream card stock reverse, bearing only faint handwritten pencil annotations in a cursive hand, likely added by a later owner or collector; no official text or design elements are present. |
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Agudo is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation — prompting hundreds of local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to issue their own emergency paper money. The Consejo Municipal de Agudo was one of thousands of such improvised issuers, operating under no central printing authority and with whatever materials were locally available.
The thick card stock is characteristic of municipally produced Civil War emergency notes, which were often printed on whatever substrate could hold ink rather than purpose-made banknote paper.