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1 Peseta Puerto de la Libertad
| Issuer | Puerto de la Libertad, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Puerto de la Libertad Vale por 1 peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Puerto de la Libertad Voucher for 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal stamp in violet-purple ink, reading CONSEJO LOCAL around the upper arc and PUERTO DE LA LIBERTAD along the lower arc, enclosing a central coat of arms vignette. The stamp serves as the sole authentication device on an otherwise blank reverse. |
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Puerto de la Libertad is a port town in El Salvador, and like hundreds of municipalities across Latin America, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the chronic small-change shortages that plagued the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These local municipal notes — often printed on whatever stock was available and authenticated by an official rubber stamp rather than any sophisticated security feature — were purely functional instruments, redeemable in theory at the issuing municipality's treasury.
The Gari Monetary catalog remains the primary reference for these Salvadoran local issues, most of which survive in tiny quantities. The 1194A-A designation suggests a variant within an already narrow series.