Catalog
1 Peseta Beas de Segura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Beas de Segura |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a plain field, enclosed within a decorative floral border printed in black. A green underprint of ornamental designs and lettering forms the background, giving the note a two-color appearance typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | Este Billete es valedero solamente en el interior de este término municipal, pudiendo ser canjeado en Billetes del Banco de España cuando a su poseedor le interese en la Oficina de Intercambio que para los efectos ha montado este Consejo Municipal. (Translation: This Banknote is only valid within this municipal term, and can be exchanged for Banknotes of the Bank of Spain when the holder is interested in it at the Exchange Office that this Municipal Council has set up for this purpose.) |
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Beas de Segura is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this note belongs to the vast wave of locally-issued emergency fractional currency — moneda local de necesidad — that flooded Republican-held Spain after the military rising of July 1936 disrupted coin circulation almost overnight. The Consejo Municipal had no formal banking apparatus; these were produced under improvised conditions, often by local printers with whatever materials were available, and circulated purely within the town's economy.
Gari Mon#243-C indicates a distinct variety within the Beas de Segura issues — collectors should verify the specific differentiating feature against the Gari catalogue before attribution.