Catalog
1 Peseta Alboloduy
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alboloduy |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note entirely in dark ink on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border composed of repeated dot-and-dash ornamental elements forming a rectangular frame. The issuer's name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALBOLODUY" is set in large bold capitals across the upper portion, with the denomination "UNA PESETA" displayed in large type to the left, flanked by small scroll ornaments. Below centre, the redeemability clause is printed in spaced capitals, followed by the manuscript signature of the depositary, with the printer's imprint "PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA" at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, leaving the plain paper surface blank save for a faint oval municipal dry stamp applied at centre, the impression of which is barely legible through the paper. |
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Alboloduy is a small agricultural municipality in Almería province with a population that barely reached 800 in the 1930s. This note was issued by its municipal council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities, many far larger than Alboloduy, were forced into the same improvisation.
Papelería Lacoste was a commercial stationer in Almería city, not a security printer. The dry stamp was the council's only real hedge against forgery.