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1 Peseta Albatera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albatera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal green on a salmon-pink guilloche underprint, the note is framed by a geometric border with concentric circle rosettes at each corner and ornamental scrollwork. A central diamond-shaped vignette in teal and salmon carries the large denomination numeral '1 Pta' in bold letterpress. Three manuscript signatures appear at the lower margin beneath the printed titles 'El Presidente', 'El Interventor', and 'El Depositario', with a violet official rubber stamp of the Municipal Council partially overlapping the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALBATERA 1 PTA EL PRESIDENTE / EL INTERVENTOR / EL DEPOSITARIO (Translation: Municipal Council Albatera / 1 Peseta / The President / The Comptroller / The Treasurer) |
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Albatera, a small municipality in the province of Alicante, was among hundreds of Republican-controlled towns that printed their own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the withdrawal of coinage from circulation in 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues were purely local instruments — accepted in the issuing town and, at best, tolerated in nearby villages. Redemption was never guaranteed, and most were rendered worthless after Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region in early 1939.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference places this within a documented series, though surviving examples vary considerably in print quality due to the improvised production conditions common to Republican municipal issues of this period.