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1 Peseta Purchena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Purchena |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in dark blue letterpress throughout. A border of evenly spaced dots frames the entire face. The issuer's name and promise-to-pay legend appear in the upper and central fields, with a handwritten serial number above a printed 'N°' prefix line at the top. The denomination is repeated in a ruled rectangular cartouche at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream stock bearing a single large oval municipal dry stamp applied in blue-grey ink at centre, enclosing a globe motif with horizontal lines and a vertical axis, surrounded by a circular legend reading 'AYUNTAMIENTO DE PURCHENA' and 'PUNCIO Purchena' at the lower arc. |
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Purchena is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper scrip when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican zone suffered acute small-change shortages as silver and copper were hoarded or requisitioned, forcing ayuntamientos and consejos down to village level to print their own fractional currency — often on whatever card stock was at hand.
The thick substrate here was a practical choice, not an aesthetic one. Thin paper wore out fast in daily market use, and many Almería-region issues were already degrading within months of issue.