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1 Peseta Marjaliza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Marjaliza |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text printed in black letterpress. The large bold letters "UNA" occupy the left half of the note vertically, while the issuer name "Consejo Municipal DE MARJALIZA (Toledo)" is set in mixed typefaces in the upper right, separated from the denomination word "peseta" below by a double rule underline. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper, otherwise blank, with a hand-applied oval violet rubber stamp reading "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MARJALIZA (Toledo)" around the perimeter, serving as the sole authentication mark of the issuing authority. |
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Marjaliza is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. These consejo municipal notes were produced under genuine economic pressure — not as a political gesture but because markets needed something to make change.
The Gari Mon reference places this within the broader Castilla-La Mancha emergency issue documentation. Authentication relied entirely on the official stamp, which means forgeries and unauthorized impressions were a real risk even at the time of issue.