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1 Peseta Almuradiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almuradiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 84 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain paper, the note is framed by a decorative geometric border of interlocking scroll and key motifs running along all four edges. A halftone photographic vignette of a male portrait occupies the upper left quadrant. The denomination UNA PESETA is set in bold block type at centre-right, flanked above by the issuing authority text and the promise-to-pay clause in italic script, with the emission year and three manuscript signatures — those of the Secretario, El Alcalde, and El Tesorero — below. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALMURADIEL pagará al portador UNA PESETA Emisión 1937. El Secretario / El Alcalde / El Tesorero TIP. MINERVA - MANZANARES (Translation: The Municipal Council of Almuradiel will pay the bearer One Peseta. Issue 1937.) |
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Almuradiel is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this note is a product of the chaotic localism of Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War. When the central banking system fragmented after July 1936, hundreds of town councils — many of them tiny — began issuing their own emergency fractional currency, known as *papel moneda local*. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure of its own, so the work went to Tipografía Minerva in nearby Manzanares, which produced notes for several surrounding municipalities during the same period.
Gari Montllor's catalog documents this as a scarce emission; survival rates for small-town Republican issues were poor, with most eventually demonetized and destroyed after Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region in 1939.