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1 Peseta Dosbarrios
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Dosbarrios |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain paper, framed by a double rectangular border composed of dotted guilloche-style ornamental banding. The issuer's name appears in bold capitals at the top, with the denomination 'UNA Peseta' in large type to the left centre and a serial number field with a handwritten numeral to the right. The voucher clause 'Vale para transacciones locales' is set in bold italics across the lower portion, with the printer's imprint below the outer frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Dosbarrios UNA Peseta N.° Vale para transacciones locales IMP. PROVINCIAL.- OCAÑA (Translation: Municipal Council of Dosbarrios / One Peseta / No. / Voucher for local transactions / Provincial Press - Ocaña) |
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Dosbarrios is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and this note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's fractured monetary reality. When the Republic's central supply of small change collapsed after 1936, hundreds of local councils — ayuntamientos, cooperatives, even individual businesses — filled the vacuum with their own emergency fractional paper. The Consejo Municipal authorized these issues to keep local commerce moving when coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped arriving.
Printing at the Imprenta Provincial in nearby Ocaña kept production costs and logistics manageable for a village council with no banking infrastructure. Gari Mon catalogues this as 597A-A, suggesting at least one variant exists within the type.