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1 Peseta Madrigueras
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Madrigueras |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-printed note with black letterpress text, the border formed by a continuous interlocking circles guilloche frame. Two central medallions each contain an animal head vignette — one a feline and one a zebra — set within circular cartouches. The issuer's name and denomination appear in bold black lettering across the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette printed in blue, composed of multiple interlocking concentric-circle patterns arranged in an oval cloud-like form with a small open centre. The serial number appears in red at the upper right and lower left corners, each accompanied by an asterisk, with the legend printed in red at upper left and lower right. A violet handstamp with manuscript signatures appears on the left margin. |
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Madrigueras is a small municipality in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency paper currency when metal coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. These municipal notes — often printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes hand-stamped or rubber-stamped in lieu of proper printing — filled a genuine transactional void at the village level.
The Garrido-Mora cataloguing of Republican local issues places this in the middle tier of scarcity for Albacete province. Provincial issues from this region are disproportionately difficult to attribute precisely because many councils shared printers or reused typeset formats.