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5 Euro Herrera de la Mancha
| Issuer | Centro Penitenciario Herrera de la Mancha |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured background bearing a large handwritten signature at centre-left, with the official circular seal of the Dirección del Centro Penitenciario Herrera de la Mancha applied to the right, displaying a heraldic shield at its centre surrounded by the institution's name. |
| Reverse lettering | CENTRO PENITENCIARIO HERRERA DE LA MANCHA DIRECCION (Translation: Penitentiary Center Herrera de la Mancha Direction) |
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Prison scrip issued by a Spanish penitentiary is unusual enough, but the involvement of the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre — the same state body that prints official Spanish currency and passports — makes this note genuinely remarkable. FNMT produced it to the same security standards applied to public circulation notes, a deliberate choice given the obvious counterfeiting risks inherent in closed-economy scrip.
Herrera de la Mancha, located in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, is a high-security facility. Internal currency of this kind was used to allow inmates to purchase goods within the prison economy while preventing the movement of real currency inside the walls.