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1 Peseta Pedro Muñoz
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pedro Muñoz (Province of Ciudad Real) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on buff-coloured card stock, printed in dark brown ink throughout. A hatched rectangular border frames all text, with the issuing authority and denomination in bold lettering at centre, signature lines for El Presidente and El Depositario below, and a rubber-stamp impression reading JESÚS MORENA at lower right. Expiry date appears at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Pedro Muñoz Emisión Local 1 de Junio de 1937 Vale por 1 peseta Canjeable en este Consejo Municipal El Presidente, El Depositario, Este vale caduca el 31 de agosto de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Pedro Muñoz Local Issue June 1, 1937 Valid for 1 Peseta Redeemable in this Municipal Council The President, The Depositary, This voucher expires August 31, 1937.) |
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Pedro Muñoz is a small agricultural town in La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional notes when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Consejo Municipal series from 1937 falls squarely within the broader moneda local phenomenon — a fragmented, improvised response to the coin hoarding and metal requisitioning that paralyzed everyday commerce from 1936 onward.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale of production: small print runs on heavier substrate were easier to manage locally and harder to fold into illegibility after a few weeks of market use.