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1 Peseta Campillo de Altobuey
| Issuer | Campillo de Altobuey, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress on white paper with a geometric border framing the entire face. A central allegorical vignette presents a seated female figure holding a torch in one hand and a sword in the other, leaning against the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, with a lion and radiant sun in the background. Denomination, issuing authority, and validity inscriptions are arranged around the vignette within the framed layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1`00 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CAMPILLO de ALTOBUEY VALE por 1 peseta Campillo de Altobuey, Febrero de 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Campillo de Altobuey Voucher for 1 Peseta Campillo de Altobuey, February 1937) |
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Campillo de Altobuey is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small coinage — Republican-zone hoarding and metal requisitioning for the war effort had effectively stripped everyday commerce of workable change.
These municipal emissions were technically unauthorized by the central Republican government but tolerated out of necessity. The Gari Montalvo reference places this firmly within the documented Cuenca regional series, though survival rates for village-level issues from this province are uneven at best.