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1000 Pesetas replica
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 178 x 106 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown typographic design on cream underprint with intricate guilloche border. A large ornate medallion vignette to the left carries the denomination numeral '1000' within repeated legend bands. The central field bears the issuer title in bold letterpress above the denomination and issue place and date, with three facsimile signature lines below. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio-style vignette of the Alcántara Bridge in the foreground with the Alcázar of Toledo rising on the cliff above, rendered in fine line engraving in brown on cream paper. Flanking guilloche rosettes carry the 'MIL PESETAS' denomination inscription, with '1000' numerals at each corner within the ruled border. |
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Pick 102 is a replica — not a reproduction issued for study or display, but a wartime emergency facsimile printed by the FNMT in Madrid when the Republican government found itself unable to access the original plates. The genuine 1000 Pesetas notes of this type had been produced with considerably more sophisticated security printing; the replica strips that back to basics, which is precisely why it exists as a separate catalog entry rather than a variant.
Spain in 1936 was not one banking system but two — Nationalist and Republican authorities each issuing currency and each contesting the legitimacy of the other's paper. That political fracture is the direct reason this facsimile was produced at all.