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1 Peseta Caudete
| Issuer | Caudete, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a light green underprint bearing the repeated text 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CAUDETE', the obverse is framed by an ornate floral and acanthus-leaf border with scalloped outer contours. The municipal coat of arms of Caudete — surmounted by a mural crown and flanked by foliate scrollwork — occupies the centre, with the initials 'C D' beneath a tower at its base. The denomination '1 PTA' appears in oval cartouches to the left and right, with the issuer name 'CAUDETE' in bold letterpress along the lower margin below the signature lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CAUDETE 1 PTA EL PRESIDENTE EL CONSEJERO DE HACIENDA (Translation: Municipal Council / Caudete / 1 Peseta / The President / The Councillor of Finance) |
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Caudete is a small municipality in the province of Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation by 1936–37. These local emissions — collectively known as moneda local or billetes de necesidad — were produced under minimal oversight, often by local print shops with whatever materials were at hand, and the quality varies dramatically even within a single series.
Gari's catalog remains the primary reference for these municipal emissions, and the relatively high number assigned suggests Caudete's issue is one of the less-documented specimens in the broader Albacete regional grouping.