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1 Peseta Albánchez
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albánchez |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALBANCHEZ (Almería) 12 de Julio de 1.937 UNA PESETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Albánchez (Almería) July 12, 1937. One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark blue within a ruled geometric border, the central panel carries guilloche-style ornamental designs surrounding the numeral denomination. The composition is spare and utilitarian, consistent with locally produced Civil War emergency issues, with the face value restated in text form beneath the central device. |
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Albánchez is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute after 1936. These local issues — collectively catalogued as "Guerra Civil" municipal notes — were produced with whatever printing resources were available locally, often on poor-quality stock with rudimentary typography. Most circulated within the issuing municipality only, which means survival rates correlate directly with how isolated or contested the area was in 1937.
The Gari Montserrat reference confirms authentic cataloguing within the specialist literature on Spanish Civil War municipal emissions, but Albánchez issues remain genuinely scarce finds.