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1 Peseta Puertollano
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Puertollano (Municipality of Puertollano) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream paper stock, with no pictorial vignette. The issuing authority "AYUNTAMIENTO PUERTOLLANO" appears in bold uppercase letterpress at the top, separated from the lower panel by a short horizontal rule. The denomination "UNA Peseta" is set vertically along the left margin, flanked by vertical rules, while the designation "Bono Municipal" occupies the central lower panel enclosed within double horizontal rules. |
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| 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.