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1 Peseta Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Rudimentary wartime letterpress note printed in dark blue on coarse, uncoated paper stock. Text is arranged in three horizontal registers: the issuing authority at the top, the locality name and designation in the centre, and the denomination statement at the foot. A faint stamp or seal impression appears between the central and lower inscriptions. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank reverse on coarse, unprinted paper stock showing no vignettes, lettering, or decorative elements; the surface displays a natural fibre texture consistent with low-grade wartime emergency issue material. |
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Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. This note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War emergency local currency — the billetes de necesidad — issued by municipal councils when the Republic's central supply of small change collapsed after July 1936. Thousands of ayuntamientos and consejos municipales printed their own fractional notes, many in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper and printing equipment the town could access.
The Gari Monereo reference is unassigned, which typically indicates the cataloger recorded the issuer but could not confirm a complete surviving specimen for attribution. Genuinely scarce at the municipal level.