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| Issuer | Consejo de Administración de Tévar |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream paper stock, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border composed of fine dashed lines. The issuing authority is set in bold uppercase letters across the upper portion, with the locality name centered beneath, separated from the denomination statement by a horizontal rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN TEVAR (CUENCA) VALE POR UNA PESETA (Translation: Management Council Tevar (Cuenca) Voucher for One Peseta) |
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Tévar is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and its local emergency currency belongs to the dense ecosystem of Spanish Civil War-era municipal notes issued when the Republican zone faced acute coin shortages from 1936 onward. The Consejo de Administración — a wartime administrative council structure imposed across Republican-held towns — had authority to issue these emergency fractional notes, though the legal framework governing them was inconsistently applied. Many such issues were never formally redeemed.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the specialized cataloguing of Spanish local paper money, a field where forgeries and fantasy pieces occasionally surface alongside genuine wartime emissions.