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1 Peseta Bienservida
| Issuer | Bienservida, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress-printed local exchange voucher with the issuing authority's name and denomination rendered in bold typographical lettering. A vignette on the left side presents two cherubs supporting a decorative basket, flanked by floral and geometric border ornaments. The printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse without vignettes or decorative elements, consistent with the emergency wartime production of Civil War-era local currency issued by the Municipal Council of Bienservida, Province of Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha. |
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Bienservida is a small municipality in the province of Albacete, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency pieces produced across Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War after the gold and silver coinage that had circulated for decades abruptly vanished from daily commerce in 1936. Municipal governments, cooperatives, and even individual businesses were left to improvise. Imprenta Collado, a commercial printing house in Albacete city, supplied several of these local issues — the Gari Monetario catalogues document the variation in paper stock and ink quality across the run.