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10 Axarcos La Axarquía
| Issuer | La Alquería del Gamal (Antonio Gámez Burgos) |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper; left vignette of the botanist Ibn al-Baytar (Ebh Beithar) in profile bust facing right, set against a vignette of the La Axarquía landscape with an Arab-style horseshoe arch. The serial number appears in blue. Inscriptions in Spanish identify the note as a private promise to pay One Thousand pesetas, dated 21 March 1988, drawn on the Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Málaga, Vélez-Málaga branch no. 1. |
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| Obverse lettering | Antonio Gámez Burgos Said de la Alquería del Gamal Nº 01738 Pagará al portador Mil pesetas con cargo a su cta. cte. nº 2000 en la Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Málaga en Vélez-Málaga sucursal n.º 1. Velez-Málaga a 21 de Marzo de 1988 El Said, Ebh Beithar Botánico Alquimista 1216 10 Diez Axarcos (Translation: Antonio Gámez Burgos Said of the Alquería del Gamal Will pay the bearer One Thousand pesetas from his current account no. 2000 at the Provincial Savings Bank of Málaga in Vélez-Málaga, branch no. 1. Vélez-Málaga, March 21, 1988 The Said, Ebh Beithar, Alchemist and Botanical 1216 10 Ten Axarcos) |
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The Axarco was a local complementary currency introduced in the Axarquía comarca of Málaga province during the late 1980s, circulating among a network of small producers and traders as an alternative exchange medium during a period when rural Andalusian communities were experimenting with cooperative economics outside the peseta system. La Alquería del Gamal, the issuing entity behind this note, was an agricultural cooperative near Vélez-Málaga run by Antonio Gámez Burgos — one of the more idiosyncratic figures in Spain's localist economic revival of that decade.
These notes were never legal tender and carried no redemption guarantee from any banking authority. Survival rates are low; most were redeemed within the network and discarded.