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1 Peseta Alborea
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alborea |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper printed in black by letterpress. A large bold numeral '1' occupies the left margin, while a rounded rectangular border composed of small square dots frames the central text block. The denomination 'PESETA' appears in large bold capitals within a ruled panel, above which the issuing authority legend is set in two lines, separated from the denomination by a double horizontal rule. A handwritten serial number is inscribed at the top above the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Núm. Consejo Municipal de Alborea Pagará al portador 1 PESETA (Translation: No. / Municipal Council of Alborea / Will pay the bearer / 1 Peseta) |
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Alborea is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's peseta coinage disappeared from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. These municipal issues — collectively termed "billetes locales" — were tolerated rather than formally authorized, and their legal standing was always ambiguous.
The Consejo Municipal designation places this issue firmly in the Republican administrative structure, as Francoist zones retained traditional Ayuntamiento terminology. At 59 × 39 mm, this is among the smallest pieces of paper money produced anywhere in Europe during the conflict.