1 Peseta Jódar

Jódar is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this note is a product of the fractional currency crisis that paralyzed Republican-held Spain during the Civil War. After July 1936, the flight of silver and copper coinage from circulation created an acute shortage of small change that central authorities couldn't address quickly enough. Local committees — market boards, worker collectives, town councils — filled the void by issuing their own emergency paper, often on whatever stock was at hand.

The Comité de Abastos, literally a supply or provisions committee, was an economic body rather than a financial one, which underscores just how improvised these emissions were. The handstamp served as both validation and anti-counterfeiting measure — thin protection, but enough for hyperlocal use where everyone knew the issuing authority personally.

Gari Mon#799-C suggests at least two prior varieties, pointing to repeated reissues as demand persisted.