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1 Peseta Pedro Muñoz
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pedro Muñoz |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with horizontal blue and red ruled lines forming a decorative border at top and bottom. The central field carries letterpress text in black ink, with the issuing authority and date in the upper portion, the denomination 'Vale por Una Peseta' in large bold letters at centre, and the redemption clause below. Three signature lines for El Presidente, El Interventor, and El Depositario appear at foot, each bearing a manuscript signature in black ink over a faint red control stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Pedro Muñoz Emisión Local de 1 Octubre 1938 Vale por Una Peseta Canjeable en este Consejo Municipal EL PRESIDENTE, EL INTERVENTOR, EL DEPOSITARIO, (Translation: Municipal Council of Pedro Muñoz / Local Issue of 1 October 1938 / Valid for One Peseta / Redeemable at this Municipal Council / The President, The Comptroller, The Treasurer) |
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Pedro Muñoz is a small agricultural town in the La Mancha plain of Ciudad Real province. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of municipalities across Republican-held territory issued their own emergency paper currency — known as "moneda local" or "billetes de necesidad" — when the collapse of normal coin circulation left local commerce paralysed. The Consejo Municipal, as the wartime governing body, held the authority to issue these notes under a general Republican decree permitting local emergency emissions.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains incomplete for many smaller Manchegan issues, which is why this note carries no assigned number. Documentation for minor municipal emissions from 1937–38 is genuinely patchy — some are known only from single surviving specimens.