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5 Axarquillos La Axarquía
| Issuer | Antonio Gámez Burgos (Alquería del Gamal) |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 5 Axarquillos |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on white paper. A right-facing bust vignette of the Andalusian Arab botanist and physician Ibn al-Baytar (Ebh Beithar, 1216) occupies the left portion, accompanied by a landscape vignette of the La Axarquía region and an ornamental Arab-style arch motif. A green serial number appears on the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | Nº 01738 La Alquería del Gamal Cinco Axarquillos 5 Felipe II Rebelión Axárquicos 2 Junio 1569 (Translation: The Alquería del Gamal Five Axarquillos Philip II Axarquía Rebellion June 2, 1569) |
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The Axarquía is a comarca in the mountains east of Málaga, and from the late 1980s onward a handful of its municipalities and local merchants experimented with complementary currency systems — part barter revival, part regional identity exercise. This 5 Axarquillos note was issued by a private individual rather than a cooperative or municipal body, which is unusual even within that already irregular tradition. Antonio Gámez Burgos operated out of Alquería del Gamal, a small village in the Axarquía interior, and the currency's acceptance would have been entirely dependent on personal trust networks.
The Axarquillo as a unit never achieved the organised backing that sustained better-known Spanish local currencies of the same period.