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1 Peseta Mascaraque
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mascaraque |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE MASCARAQUE UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council of Mascaraque — One Peseta) |
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| Protection description | Oval violet ink handstamp of the Secretariat of the Municipal Council of Mascaraque (Toledo) applied to the reverse. |
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Mascaraque is a small municipality in Toledo province, Castile-La Mancha — population rarely above a few hundred. This note is a product of the Republican side's acute small-change crisis of 1936–1937, when the hoarding of metallic coinage stripped local economies of any functional low-denomination currency. Municipal councils across Spain, including obscure villages with no banking infrastructure whatsoever, were legally permitted to issue their own emergency paper to fill the gap.
The stamp serves as the primary authentication mechanism — a practical solution when access to security printing was nonexistent. Forgery risk at this denomination and locality was essentially zero; the real concern was legitimacy within the issuing commune itself.