Catalog
1 Peseta Camuñas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Camuñas |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream paper with a fine dotted guilloche underprint in orange-pink. The issuing authority title 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CAMUÑAS' appears at the top center in bold blue type, flanked at upper right by the denomination numeral '1'00'. Four green rectangular underprint blocks are distributed across the field. The denomination 'UNA PESETA' is set in large display type at center, below which the legal tender clause runs in smaller text, with the denomination repeated at lower left. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, preceded by the printed titles 'El Presidente' and 'El Secretario'. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1'00 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CAMUÑAS UNA PESETA de curso legal en la localidad El Presidente El Secretario (Translation: 1.00 Municipal Council Camuñas One Peseta legal tender in the town The President The Secretary) |
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Camuñas is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small change in paper form when coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The Nationalist advance through Castilla-La Mancha disrupted supply chains and drove metal coins into hoarding almost simultaneously, forcing local governing bodies — many of them anarchist or socialist-controlled at the time — to improvise their own fractional currency with whatever printing resources were available locally.
The Gari Monetary catalogue entry for this piece reflects how thoroughly these municipal emissions were documented only decades after the fact, largely through collector fieldwork rather than official archives.