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10 Euro Herrera de la Mancha
| Issuer | Centro Penitenciario Herrera de la Mancha |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Composition | Paper (thick paper) |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRO PENITENCIARIO DE HERRERA DE LA MANCHA 10 € DIEZ EURO EYPO (Translation: Penitentiary Center of Herrera de la Mancha Ten Euro) |
| Reverse description | Plain white field bearing a large handwritten director's signature at centre left. To the right, a circular official stamp of the penitentiary centre shows a crowned heraldic shield at its centre, surrounded by the institutional name and the word DIRECCIÓN. |
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Herrera de la Mancha, a maximum-security prison in Castilla-La Mancha, operated an internal scrip system allowing inmates to purchase goods within the facility without handling official currency — a practice with long roots in Spanish penitentiary administration. This note was produced by the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, the same Madrid institution responsible for Spain's official euro banknotes, giving it a level of technical production quality unusual for prison scrip anywhere in Europe.
The denomination mirrors the euro but carries no legal tender status outside the walls. FNMT's involvement was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure — inmates had both motive and time.