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5 Axarcos La Axarquía
| Issuer | La Alquería del Gamal |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Axarco (1988-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Antonio Gámez Burgos Said de la Alquería del Gamal Nº 01738 Pagará al portador Quinientas 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 5 Cinco Axarcos (Translation: Antonio Gámez Burgos Said of the Alquería del Gamal Will pay the bearer five 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 5 Five Axarcos) |
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| Signature(s) | Antonio Gámez Burgos |
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La Alquería del Gamal was a rural cooperative based in the Axarquía comarca of eastern Málaga province, and this note belongs to a small wave of locally-issued paper scrip that circulated in parts of Andalusia during the late 1980s — a period when certain cooperative and alternative-economy movements in Spain experimented with complementary currencies as tools of economic self-sufficiency. The "Axarco" unit was tied specifically to the cooperative's internal exchange network rather than any formal monetary authority.
Antonio Gámez Burgos's signature as sole signatory suggests a tightly controlled, small-batch issue. Print runs for scrip of this type were typically modest enough that survival rates are genuinely poor — not through destruction, but through loss in ordinary use among a small membership.