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1 Peseta Almansa
| Issuer | Almansa, Municipality of |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALMANSA 1 PTA. PAPEL MONEDA DE VALOR EXCULUSIVAMENTE LOCAL (Translation: Municipal Council Almansa 1 Peseta Paper money of exclusively local value) |
| Reverse description | Dark brown letterpress printing with geometric border framing matching the obverse. A crowned oval coat of arms of Almansa is set against a background of radiating green rays. The denomination appears in dark brown lettering. |
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Almansa is a small town in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local authorities to print fractional currency in 1936 to address a severe coin shortage. These municipal emissions were never coordinated centrally — each town designed and printed its own, often using local printers with no banknote experience. The Gari Montalvo catalog remains the primary reference for this chaotic class of material, which is why serious collectors still work from it rather than from any standardized corpus.