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1 Peseta Albacete
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albacete |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The central design presents the Coat of Arms of Albacete, flanked by lateral allegorical figures representing the Republic, including a female portrait and a raised fist. The denomination is printed below the arms within a simple typographic layout. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA. (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Albacete's municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 because the Republic's central authorities had catastrophically failed to keep low-denomination coinage in circulation — silver and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply disappeared from the war economy. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities resorted to printing their own paper fractions, and Albacete was among them.
Bassa i Pagès in Barcelona was one of the more active commercial printers servicing Republican municipal issues during this period. The Gari Mon#39-F reference places this within a documented series, though survival rates for these local wartime emissions vary considerably — many were redeemed aggressively or simply abandoned when Nationalist forces took Albacete in March 1939.