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1 Peseta Pétrola
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pétrola |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on white paper, the note is structured around a bold typographic layout framed by a geometric Art Deco border composed of ruled lines, rectangular blocks, and rounded oblong ornaments at the lateral margins. A solid header panel carries the issuing authority legend, below which diamond-shaped vignettes flank the municipality and province names in serif lettering. The denomination is stated in large capital letters in the lower half, preceded by the voucher legend, and underscored by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, left unprinted, with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, as was typical of locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency currency vouchers issued by small municipalities. |
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Pétrola is a small municipality in the province of Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns, its local council was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply in circulation. These municipal emergency issues — collectively cataloged under the broader "billetes locales" framework — were typically produced with whatever printing resources were locally available, which often meant crude typography, thin paper stock, and inconsistent ink coverage.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a well-documented but sparsely surviving series. Pétrola's wartime population was small enough that total print runs were likely limited, and survivor rates for these hyper-local issues are low.