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1 Peseta El Bonillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Bonillo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on cream paper, with the issuer's title 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE EL BONILLO' set in capital letters across the top, framed by a continuous decorative border of stylised foliate and leaf motifs. The denomination 'Vale 1 peseta' is printed in large bold letterpress type at centre, above a three-line redemption clause in smaller roman type. Series letter and serial number are positioned in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE EL BONILLO Vale 1 peseta Cantidad depositada, canjeable al portador en este Consejo en cualquier fecha, valedero solo en esta villa al objeto de facilitar cambio. Serie A NUM. [serial number] |
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El Bonillo is a small municipality in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional paper during the Civil War when Republican authorities commandeered metallic coin for the war effort. The Consejo Municipal stepped in to fill the resulting gap in small-denomination exchange — not as a monetary authority, but out of pure practical necessity.
The Gari Mon 353A-B listing indicates two variants within the series, likely distinguished by serial number range, paper stock, or minor typographic differences rather than separate emission dates. Local emergency issues from this region are notoriously poorly documented, and genuine distinctions between variants are sometimes impossible to confirm without physical comparison.