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1 Peseta Alarcón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alarcón |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain paper, with a geometric border frame enclosing the entire face. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, accompanied by the issuing authority legend and denomination text in capital letters. The date of issue appears in the lower inscription, consistent with wartime municipal emergency printing conventions. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal ALARCÓN VALE por una Peseta Alarcón, Septiembre de 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Alarcón Voucher for One Peseta Alarcón, September of 1937) |
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Alarcón is a small Castilian town perched above the Júcar gorge, and its municipal council issued emergency fractional paper during the Civil War years when Republican Spain suffered an acute shortage of small change — metallic coinage had largely vanished into hoarding and melting. These locally issued notes (known as *papel moneda local* or *billetes de necesidad*) were produced by hundreds of municipalities across Republican-held territory from 1936 onward, each council improvising with whatever printing resources existed nearby.
The Gari Monetary catalogue reference places this firmly within the documented Cuenca provincial emissions, but surviving examples from Alarcón are genuinely uncommon — the town's wartime population was small, output was low, and very little was preserved after Nationalist forces took the area.