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1 Peseta Almedina
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almedina |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALMEDINA Vale por 1 peseta Nº [serial number] Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Almedina Valid for 1 Peseta September 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, showing the uniform light green card stock with no printed design, lettering, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Almedina is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and hundreds of local councils, cooperatives, and committees issued their own emergency paper to fill the gap. This 1 Peseta is one of those municipal emissions, authorized under no central banking framework whatsoever, valid only within the bounds of the issuing locality.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: it resisted wear better than thin paper in hand-to-hand daily use at markets and local commerce. Most of these Castilian municipal pieces were redeemed or destroyed after the war, and small-town issues from Ciudad Real province survive in genuinely limited numbers.