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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ontur |
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| Size | 83 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a single rectangular border. The issuer's name appears in the upper register alongside the denomination value "1'00" repeated at each corner, with the promise-to-pay text and denomination "Una peseta" in bold script occupying the central field. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion beneath the printed role designations "El Alcalde" and "El Interventor". |
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| Obverse lettering | 1'00 Consejo Municipal de Ontur 1'00 Pagará al portador en billetes del Banco de España Una peseta El Alcalde, El Interventor, (Translation: 1.00 Municipal Council of Ontur 1.00 / Will pay the bearer in banknotes of the Bank of Spain / One peseta / The Mayor, / The Controller,) |
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Ontur is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, acute shortages of small-denomination coinage prompted hundreds of local councils across Republican-held territory to issue their own emergency paper scrip — these are collectively catalogued under the "billetes de necesidad" or "moneda local" classification. The Consejo Municipal de Ontur's 1 Peseta falls squarely into that category, produced under wartime necessity rather than any formal monetary authority.
The incomplete Gari Mon reference suggests this issue remains poorly documented in the specialist literature — known examples are rare enough that a firm catalog number has never been assigned.