Catalog
1 Peseta Belmez
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Belmez |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | FRENTE POPULAR BELMEZ UNA Peseta (Translation: Popular Front Belmez One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, largely unprinted, bearing a single handwritten authorization signature applied in violet ink at centre, accompanied by a small green circular seal impression. |
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Belmez is a small coal-mining municipality in the province of Córdoba, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional issues — conocidos as billetes locales or vales — that flooded Republican-held Spain after the military uprising of July 1936 collapsed the normal coin supply almost overnight. The Frente Popular committees administering these towns were left to improvise their own small-change solutions, usually with whatever printing resources existed locally.
Gari's catalog documents considerable variation within Belmez emissions, and type 258-A likely distinguishes an early printing state or a specific paper stock from later issues. Attribution to a single print run is difficult — many of these local bodies issued in small batches as need arose.