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1 Peseta Alcaracejos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alcaracejos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALCARACEJO (Córdoba) Vale por 1 peseta N° [serial number] Emisión Noviembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Alcaracejos (Córdoba) Voucher for 1 Peseta Issue November 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a single oval black ink hand-stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Alcaracejos, enclosing the municipal coat of arms at centre, with the legend of the issuing authority running around the inner border of the oval. A handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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Alcaracejos is a small municipality in the northern Sierra Morena of Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-change notes — called moneda local — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government nominally sanctioned these municipal emissions but exercised little practical control over their design or execution.
The Garíin Moragas catalogue reference is incomplete here, suggesting this piece was either unrecorded or only recently documented. For a village of Alcaracejos's size, survival rates for any issued denomination are typically very low — production runs were small, and most notes were withdrawn or simply fell apart in daily use before the war ended.