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1 Peseta Campos del Río
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#423-C |
| Obverse description | Typeset note printed entirely in red on white paper, with all text enclosed within a rectangular border composed of a continuous dotted-dot pattern. The issuing authority appears in large letterpress type at the top, with the denomination 'Vale por UNA peseta' rendered in bold across the centre field. Signature lines for El Alcalde and El Depositario are positioned below the denomination, with a single manuscript signature present under the Depositario title, and a guarantee clause in smaller type runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted white paper; show-through of the obverse letterpress impression and a faint blue ink control stamp in an abstract figurative outline are visible from the recto. |
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Campos del Río is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento resorted to issuing local emergency scrip when coin hoarding stripped the economy of small change. These municipal notes — referred to collectively as *billetes de necesidad* — were typically produced with whatever printing resources the town had at hand, and Campos del Río was no exception.
The Gari Montaña catalogue reference places this among the rarest of provincial emissions; small-town Murcian issues in particular suffered heavy attrition, circulating hard until worthless and seldom preserved.