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1 Peseta Pórtugos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pórtugos |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Pórtugos Vale por UNA peseta CANJEABLE (Translation: Municipal Council of Pórtugos Voucher for One Peseta Redeemable) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper, otherwise unprinted, bearing a large circular hand-stamp applied in red ink representing the seal of the Consejo Municipal de Pórtugos, incorporating a star device and a central vignette; a manuscript authorisation signature in black ink is applied over the stamp as validation. |
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Pórtugos is a small village in the Alpujarras region of Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional paper money when coins vanished entirely from circulation in the summer of 1936. These municipal notes — cartones, as they were commonly called — were produced with whatever printing resources were locally available, which in villages of this size often meant a rubber stamp and a hand-cut piece of card or paper.
The Gari Montero census documents this specific emission as 1162A-A, suggesting a variant classification within a small series. Survivorship is unpredictable with issues from villages of this scale — some are genuinely rare, others surface repeatedly from a single local hoard.