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1 Peseta Puertollano
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Puertollano (Municipality of Puertollano) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO PUERTOLLANO UNA Peseta Bono Municipal (Translation: City Council Puertollano One Peseta Municipal Bond) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left plain on bare cream paper, consistent with the utilitarian wartime emergency issue character of this municipal voucher. |
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Puertollano, a mining town in Ciudad Real province, was among the hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued their own emergency fractional paper currency during the Civil War years of 1936–1939, when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These local issues — collectively known as billetes locales or moneda local de necesidad — were produced under Republican-controlled town halls with little standardization and no central oversight.
The absence of a confirmed Gari catalogue number suggests this piece remains incompletely documented, which is itself useful information: the Puertollano municipal issues are not comprehensively catalogued, and unregistered variants do surface.