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1 Peseta Piedrabuena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Piedrabuena |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain cream card stock, with no vignette or decorative elements. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL appears in bold capitals at the top, separated from PIEDRABUENA by a pair of horizontal rules; below, the denomination Vale por 1 peseta is stated in bold type, followed by a printed serial number. The date Julio, 1937 is set at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, left unprinted save for a single applied oval municipal ink stamp in blue-black, with a handwritten or rubber-stamped signature across its centre, constituting the sole authentication mark on this side. |
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Piedrabuena is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and this 1 Peseta note is one of thousands of emergency local issues that flooded Republican Spain in 1937 as the Civil War strangled the supply of small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal — the Republican-aligned town council — issued these to keep local commerce functional when coins simply weren't circulating. They are hyper-local instruments, often printed in tiny runs on whatever stock was available, which explains the thick card construction here.
Gari Monerris documented these Castellano-Manchegan municipals exhaustively; the #1112-C reference places this within his regional classification for Ciudad Real province issues.