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1 Peseta Mateo de las Fuentes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mateo de las Fuentes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 55 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on light green card stock, the face is enclosed within a plain rectangular border frame. The issuing authority name appears in two lines at the top, followed by a double horizontal rule, below which a handwritten serial number field prefixed by 'Núm.' occupies the centre. The promise-to-pay clause and the denomination 'UNA peseta' in bold type complete the lower portion of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MATEO DE LAS FUENTES Núm. Pagará al Portador UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Mateo de las Fuentes No. Will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
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Mateo de las Fuentes is a small municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castile–La Mancha. This note was issued by its local council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted, and the central government could not supply enough fractional currency to keep local commerce moving. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities responded by printing their own emergency paper, ranging from crude rubber-stamped card to reasonably well-produced typeset notes.
The Gari catalogue records only a handful of distinct types from this issuer, making survival rates difficult to establish with confidence.