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1 Peseta Puertollano
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Puertollano |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper with a single-line rectangular border framing the design. The central area displays the face value numeral flanked on either side by standing human figures, with the issuing authority's legend arranged around the composition in letterpress type. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the design centres on a large oval vignette containing a circular medallion with the denomination numeral and abbreviation, surmounted by a stylised mural crown. Flanking the central circle are symmetrical concentric-ring rosettes connected by arrow-shaped geometric ornaments, all enclosed within an octagonal dotted underprint field. A serial number appears in the upper right corner outside the vignette. |
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Puertollano, a mining town in Ciudad Real province, issued its own fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when the Republic's central authorities could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce functioning. These municipal emergency notes — known collectively as billetes de necesidad — were produced by hundreds of Spanish towns between 1936 and 1939, most with negligible print runs and purely local circulation radiuses.
The Consejo Municipal designation reflects the Republican wartime administrative structure, with town councils assuming responsibilities far beyond their peacetime remit. Puertollano's coal and mineral extraction made it economically significant enough that commercial paralysis from a coin shortage was not a theoretical problem.