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1 Peseta Lucainena de las Torres
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lucainena de las Torres |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and violet on plain paper, the obverse is divided into two zones by a dotted rectangular inner border with scrollwork corner ornaments. The left panel carries the denomination numeral '1 PTA.' flanked by stylised arrow and fan vignettes in green. The right field bears the issuer's title in green letterpress across the top, below which the value clause is set in a combination of script and bold capitals, followed by the manuscript signature of the Depositario. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, printed on undecorated paper, with only a partially legible violet oval official stamp visible towards the left, the remainder of the surface left blank. |
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Lucainena de las Torres is a village in the Sierra Alhamilla, Almería province, with a population that barely reached a thousand during the 1930s. Like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities, its council was forced to print emergency fractional currency after the Republic's small-change crisis of 1936 stripped local commerce of usable coin — silver and copper having been hoarded almost immediately after the war began.
Papelería Lacoste was a commercial stationer in Almería city, not a security printer, which is exactly what you'd expect from a village council working with whatever was locally available.