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1 Peseta Mancha Real
| Issuer | Mancha Real, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text printed in red letterpress. The issuer name 'MANCHA REAL' appears in large bold capitals at the top, separated from the denomination line 'Vale por 1 Peseta' by a horizontal rule above and below. A two-line italic text below the lower rule carries the redemption clause referencing the Banco Español de Crédito branch. |
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| Obverse lettering | MANCHA REAL Vale por 1 Peseta contra depósito de igual cantidad en la sucursal del Banco Español de Crédito (Translation: Mancha Real Voucher for 1 Peseta Against deposit of equal amount at the Spanish Credit Bank branch) |
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Mancha Real is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War years of 1936–1939, it issued its own emergency fractional currency — locally produced paper notes to compensate for the acute shortage of small coin that resulted when metallic currency vanished from circulation almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising. These municipal issues were legal only within the issuing locality and were theoretically redeemable once normal monetary conditions resumed.
Production quality across these Andalusian municipal issues varied enormously. Many were typeset and printed by whatever local printer was available, which frequently means crude registration and inconsistent ink coverage on surviving examples.