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1 Peseta Lezuza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lezuza |
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| Size | 49 × 37 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in dark blue-grey ink on plain cream paper, enclosed within a simple rectangular border of straight rules punctuated at each corner and midpoint by small diamond ornaments. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal de Lezuza' appears at the top in Gothic letterpress type, followed by the denomination 'Vale 1'00 peseta' in a bold display typeface. A four-line italic clause describing the note's conditions of exchange occupies the lower half, with a handwritten serial number prefixed by 'Núm.' at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Lezuza Vale 1'00 peseta Cantidad depositada, canjeable al portador en este Consejo en cualquier fecha, valedero solo en esta villa al objeto de facilitar cambio. Núm. |
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Lezuza is a small municipality in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional paper when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These consejo municipal notes were produced locally, often on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the extreme variation in paper quality and impression found across surviving examples of this series — Gari Mon catalogues two distinct varieties under 818A and 818B, likely reflecting different print runs or paper sources.
At under 50mm in either direction, these are among the smallest emergency issues of the war. Survival rates for Albacete provincial issues tend to be low; most circulated hard in cash-starved rural economies before being rendered worthless.