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1 Peseta Begíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Begíjar |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BEGIJAR (Jaén) 1 Peseta NOTA.- Todo cartón doblado será anulado. (Translation: Municipal Council Begíjar (Jaén) 1 Peseta Note.- Any folded cardboard will be voided.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain card stock, showing the natural fibrous texture of the thick paper substrate with no printed design, lettering, or security elements. |
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Begíjar is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War — a period when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation forced thousands of local authorities to print their own scrip. These municipally issued notes, known collectively as "billetes locales" or "moneda local de guerra," were legal only within the issuing municipality and had no standing elsewhere.
The heavier substrate was typical of many Jaén-area issues, where cardstock was substituted for the thin bank-note paper unavailable in small inland towns cut off from normal supply chains.