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1 Peseta Malpartida de la Serena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Malpartida de la Serena |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design in black letterpress on white paper. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed at upper centre, with the issuer name underlined below in bold capitals. The body of the note carries the voucher text in smaller typeface, affirming the bearer's right to redeem the stated value. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, left blank in keeping with the austere production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Malpartida de la Serena is a small municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, and this note is a product of the Republican zone's acute small-change crisis of 1936–37. When the central government's coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in rural areas — hundreds of Spanish municipalities issued their own emergency paper, the so-called "billetes locales." The Consejo Municipal here exercised that improvised authority with no backing infrastructure whatsoever.
The Gari Monerris catalogue reference places this firmly within the documented Extremaduran local emissions, though surviving examples from villages of this size are disproportionately scarce — small runs, hard use, and postwar confiscations saw to that.