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1 Axarco La Axarquía
| Issuer | Antonio Gámez Burgos (Private Issue) |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Antonio Gámez Burgos Said de la Alquería del Gamal Nº 01738 Pagará al portador Cien 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 1 Un Axarco (Translation: Antonio Gámez Burgos Said of the Alquería del Gamal Will pay the bearer one hundred 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 1 One Axarco) |
| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown throughout. At left, a front-facing bust portrait of King Philip II of Spain, set against a mountainous landscape of the La Axarquía region. Textual legends in the remaining fields reference the Axarquía Rebellion of June 2, 1569, together with the denomination and issuing entity, with a matching serial number. |
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La Axarquía is a comarca in Málaga province, and this 1 Axarco note is one of several locally denominated paper instruments issued in Spain during the 1980s by private individuals or associations experimenting with regional complementary currency — a phenomenon that had no legal tender status and existed in a grey zone that Spanish monetary authorities largely ignored at the time. Antonio Gámez Burgos issued this under his own name, making the personal liability explicit in a way that official currency never is.
The Axarco series is genuinely rare in collected form. Most circulated briefly within a narrow local network and were never systematically preserved.