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1 Peseta Mancha Real
| Issuer | Mancha Real, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed entirely in red ink on plain paper, with a geometric border of repeated ornamental motifs enclosing horizontal line underprint across the field. The issuing authority "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / Mancha Real" appears at the top in capitals, with the denomination "Una peseta" in large bold letterpress text at centre, followed by the guarantee clause referencing the Banco Español de Crédito branch in smaller type below. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Mancha Real Una peseta Contra depósito de igual cantidad en la Sucursal del Banco Esp. de Crédito (Translation: Municipal Council Mancha Real One 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, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coin shortage left local commerce essentially paralyzed from 1936 onward. These municipal notes — collectively catalogued under the broader "billetes locales" phenomenon — were produced under improvised conditions, often on whatever printing equipment or even hand-stamped stock the local council could access.
The Gari Montllor reference places this squarely within that documented series of Jaén province emissions, though survival rates for individual municipalities vary enormously. Mancha Real examples are not frequently traded.