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1 Peseta Fondón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fondón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green and violet on plain cream paper, the face is enclosed within a double-ruled border of dot-and-dash ornamental elements. A green geometric underprint with stylized foliate motifs occupies the left panel, bearing the denomination '1 PTA.' in green, with radiating fan ornaments at the lower corners. The issuing authority's name is inscribed at the top in green, with the redemption legend and 'El Depositario' signature line rendered in violet, and the printer's imprint 'PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface devoid of text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Fondón is a small mountain village in the Alpujarra region of Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency scrip when small-change coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. The Consejo Municipal filled that vacuum with handmade paper money, typically printed on whatever local press could manage the job. Here, that was Papelería Lacoste in Almería city — a stationery and printing shop pressed into monetary service by necessity.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference 656-C places this within the documented Fondón issues, though survival rates for village-level Civil War scrip are erratic; many were redeemed hastily or simply discarded when the issuing councils collapsed.