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1 Peseta Priego
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Priego (Cuenca) |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1180-C |
| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher on light green card stock, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with squared corner ornaments. The issuer's name appears in bold serif type at the top, separated from the denomination statement by a double ruled line with a wavy middle register; the denomination inscription occupies the lower half of the field in large bold type. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink stamp of the municipal alcalde (mayor) applied to the reverse as an authenticating mark |
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Ayuntamiento de Priego is a small municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, and this 1 Peseta note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War-era local emergency currency — issued by town councils across Republican-held territory from 1936 onward when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight due to hoarding and wartime disruption. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities resorted to their own paper solutions, most printed on whatever was locally available, which accounts for the thick card stock.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented municipal issues, though survival rates for small-town Cuenca pieces are low. The official stamp was the primary authentication mechanism — without central banking infrastructure, the alcalde's seal was the only guarantee a town could offer.