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1 Peseta Alcampel
| Issuer | Sindicato Agrícola de Alcampel |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Protection type | Handstamp |
| Protection description | Circular violet ink handstamp applied to the reverse as an authenticating validation mark. |
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Alcampel is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of similar villages across Republican Spain in 1936–37, its local agricultural syndicate issued emergency small-change notes when the Civil War caused metallic coinage to vanish from circulation almost overnight. The Sindicato Agrícola — a farmers' cooperative structure common under the agrarian reform policies of the Second Republic — stepped into the vacuum that the central banking system simply could not fill at the village level.
The handstamp security feature is characteristic of these hyper-local emissions: authentication by rubber stamp rather than anything more sophisticated was the practical reality for a small rural syndicate with no access to specialist printing. Forgery risk was low when the note only circulated among a few hundred people who knew each other.