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1 Peseta Alhama de Salmerón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alhama de Salmerón |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALHAMA DE SALMERON VALE 1 PTA. Valor depositado reintegrable en Billetes del Banco de España. SERIE A / UNA PESETA PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA (Translation: Municipal Council of Alhama de Salmerón Value 1 Peseta Amount deposited refundable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain. Series A / One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, otherwise unprinted, validated by a circular violet municipal stamp reading ALCALDIA PRESIDENCIA with a central coat of arms, accompanied by a manuscript ink signature to the right. |
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Alhama de Salmerón is a small municipality in the province of Guadalajara, and like hundreds of similarly isolated Spanish towns during the Civil War years, its municipal council was forced to issue its own emergency scrip when the collapse of normal banking channels made small-denomination coinage effectively disappear from circulation. These local issues — known collectively as "billetes de necesidad" — filled a vacuum that neither the Republican government nor the Nationalist zone could adequately address at the village level.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería produced notes for numerous municipalities across the region, which means the printing quality here is more consistent than many comparable issues run off on local presses with whatever materials were at hand.