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1 Peseta Agudo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Agudo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency voucher on cream-colored card stock, with the issuing authority name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' printed in bold capitals along the top, separated from 'AGUDO (C. Real)' by a ruled horizontal line. The denomination 'Vale por 1 peseta' is centered in the middle field, below which a stamped serial number appears in large characters, with the date 'Septiembre 1937.' placed at the lower left. |
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| 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.