1 Peseta Manzanares

Manzanares is a town in Ciudad Real province, Castile-La Mancha, and this note was issued during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican government authorized municipalities to print their own fractional currency to address a chronic shortage of small coins — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of Spanish towns did the same, producing a fragmented local currency system that functioned, barely, through 1937 and into 1938.

The Gari Monje catalog reference places this within the documented municipal emissions, but surviving examples from smaller Castilian towns are genuinely uncommon. Manzanares was also on a strategically contested road corridor, and wartime disruption to local administration makes full print-run documentation impossible.