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1 Peseta Frailes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Frailes |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black on cream paper, bordered by two horizontal rules at top and bottom. The issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal - Frailes (Jaén)' is set in the upper register, with the denomination statement 'Vale por 1 peseta' in larger type occupying the lower register, the numeral '1' rendered in a bold typeface. The overall design is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on cream paper, bearing a single handwritten manuscript signature applied in ink, with faint ruled lines visible across the surface. |
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Consejo Municipal de Frailes issued this 1 Peseta note as a local emergency currency — a practice that proliferated across Republican-held Spanish municipalities during the Civil War after the central government's coin shortage left small-denomination transactions effectively impossible. These municipal emissions were authorised under a 1936 decree but were often produced with whatever printing resources existed locally, resulting in highly variable quality across the series.
Frailes is a small town in the Jaén province of Andalusia. Notes from minor Jaén municipalities are among the more difficult to source, given low original production volumes and the disruption that followed Nationalist capture of the region.