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1 Peseta Castellar de Santiago
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castellar de Santiago |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on off-white card stock, enclosed within a ruled rectangular border with a dotted guilloche band running along the top and bottom edges. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the upper centre, with the denomination 'UNA PESETA' in large bold type occupying the central field, flanked by small arrow-like ornaments. The date 'Octubre-1937' is printed in the lower portion, separated from the denomination by a horizontal rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Castellar de Santiago UNA PESETA Octubre-1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellar de Santiago One Peseta October 1937) |
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Castellar de Santiago is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage dried up almost entirely after 1936. These local emission notes — known collectively as "billetes de necesidad" — were typically designed and printed under improvised conditions, often by local printers with no specialist banknote experience, which accounts for the heavy card stock used here in place of proper security paper.
The Gari Montllor catalog remains the definitive reference for Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the C-suffix designation within #477 indicates a distinct variety within the Castellar de Santiago series — likely differentiated by signature, serial style, or a minor printing variation rather than denomination change.