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1 Peseta Casasbuenas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Casasbuenas (Toledo) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock with letterpress printing in red ink throughout. The issuer name is set in two lines across the upper half, separated from the denomination by a horizontal rule underline. The denomination "UNA peseta" is printed in large red letterpress type across the lower half of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Essentially uninscribed reverse on coarse, textured cream paper stock with a visible fibrous weave pattern throughout. A plain buff-coloured paper strip or stub is affixed along the right edge, likely a remnant of the original booklet or counterfoil from which the note was detached. |
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Casasbuenas is a village in the Toledo province with a population that likely never exceeded a few hundred people — which makes the existence of a formally issued municipal emergency note both historically striking and logistically improbable. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage, prompting hundreds of municipal councils, many of them tiny, to issue their own paper or cardboard scrip under a 1936 decree that loosened controls on local emergency currency.
Survival rates for these village-level emissions are erratic. Small print runs, rough handling, and the chaos of the postwar period eliminated most.