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1 Peseta Albox
| Issuer | Albox, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 91 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text and geometric border framing on a yellow guilloche underprint with floral and geometric motifs; the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally placed, dividing the date of issue. The legend of the issuing authority and denomination appear in blue ink above and below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text and geometric border framing on a pink guilloche underprint with floral and geometric motifs; a central allegorical vignette depicts a seated female figure holding scales of justice in one hand and tablets of law in the other. The denomination is rendered in blue ink below the central composition. |
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Albox is a small agricultural municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed under wartime pressure. These local emissions — known collectively as "moneda municipal de necesidad" — were authorized piecemeal and produced under whatever printing conditions were available locally, which typically meant inconsistent paper stock, crude typography, and short runs.
The Garrido Moraga catalog reference places this within a documented but sparsely traded series. Almería-province municipals from 1937 survive in lower numbers than their Catalan counterparts, partly because the region changed hands and subsequent instability was hard on retained paper.