Catalog
1 Peseta Begíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Begíjar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on thick card stock in black ink, with the issuer name and provincial designation arranged in the upper portion and the denomination numeral and word in large bold type at centre. A continuous ornamental border of interlaced foliate and geometric motifs frames the entire face, with horizontal rule lines dividing the inscription zones. A cautionary notice at the lower portion warns that any folded card will be voided. |
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| 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.