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1 Peseta Castillo de Locubín
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castillo de Locubín |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer name appears in two lines at the top — "Consejo Municipal" in a bold serif display typeface above "CASTILLO DE LOCUBÍN" in spaced capital letters — separated from the denomination statement by a thick horizontal rule. Below the rule, the legend "Vale por" is set in a smaller bold sans-serif typeface, with the numeral and unit "1 Peseta" in a large bold letterpress face occupying the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse of plain cream card stock, showing the natural texture and fibrous grain of the thick paper support with no lettering, vignette, or any printed element. |
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Castillo de Locubín is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936–37. These local emissions — collectively known as "moneda de necesidad" — were produced under no central oversight, which is why surviving examples vary so dramatically in paper quality, print registration, and even denomination values from run to run.
Provenance for individual pieces is nearly impossible to establish. Few left the town at all.