5 Axarcos La Axarquía

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.