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1 Peseta Pedroñeras
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Las Pedroñeras |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with the large bold capital letters "UNA" occupying the left half of the face in a dominant display typeface. To the right, the issuing authority "AYUNTAMIENTO DE PEDROÑERAS" is set in a smaller serif typeface with a short rule beneath "DE", followed by a dash and the denomination word "peseta" in a bold lower-case typeface at the lower right, underlined. The design is purely typographic with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Protection description | Circular pink rubber stamp of the Ayuntamiento de Las Pedroñeras applied to the reverse, accompanied by a manuscript signature in pink ink. |
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Las Pedroñeras is a small Castilian municipality, and this peseta is one of hundreds of emergency local issues that flooded Spain during the Civil War years after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing town councils to print their own fractional currency. Central coin supply had effectively collapsed, and villages were left to solve the problem themselves.
The Gari Mon catalog designation places this among the documented Cuenca province issues, though survival rates for these municipal cards are highly uneven — small runs, heavy use, and no systematic withdrawal means condition varies wildly within the same emission.