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1 Peseta Montiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Montiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MONTIEL (C. Real) Vale por 1 peseta No. 00051 Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Montiel (Ciudad Real) / Valid for 1 peseta / No. [serial] / September 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, left unprinted, showing only the coarse cream card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Montiel is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile–La Mancha. During the Civil War, the Republican zone experienced an acute shortage of fractional coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting hundreds of local councils — many with no prior experience issuing currency — to print their own emergency paper. The Consejo Municipal de Montiel's 1 peseta falls squarely into this category of locally-authorized necessity money, cataloged under Gari's regional series rather than the better-documented Bilbao or Barcelona emissions.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this level of production — offset the lack of security printing with material that was harder to replicate locally.