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1 Peseta Almonacid
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almonacid de Toledo |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal rubber stamp in red-violet ink, containing the issuing authority's name around the perimeter and a central motif, with the validation date stamped across the lower portion of the oval. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Almonacid de Toledo is a village of a few hundred inhabitants, and in 1937 its municipal council was issuing its own currency — one of thousands of such local emissions that filled the void left by the collapse of normal coin supply during the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's hoarding problem was acute: silver and copper coins disappeared almost immediately after July 1936, forcing municipalities, trade unions, and even individual businesses to print emergency scrip.
The Imprenta Provincial de Ocaña handled production for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across multiple Gari-catalogued Toledo province emissions. The official stamp was the only meaningful anti-counterfeiting measure available at this scale.