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1 Peseta Alhambra
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alhambra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely by letterpress in black ink, with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL is set across the top, followed by ALHAMBRA centred below and underlined by two horizontal rules; the denomination Vale por 1 peseta occupies the central field, with the date Julio, 1937 at lower left and a stamped serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain cream card stock with no issued design elements; a pencilled notation appears in the upper right corner and a partial red ink stamp at lower centre, both of which are post-issue collector or auction additions rather than original features of the note. |
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Alhambra is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. This note was issued by its local municipal council during the Civil War, when the Republican government's decree of August 1936 authorized town councils to produce emergency small-change currency — suplentes de moneda — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. Hoarding and panic had stripped the economy of everything below a few pesetas in metal.
The thick card stock was a common practical choice at this scale: municipalities had no access to security printing, and heavier stock at least resisted casual counterfeiting and rapid deterioration from handling.