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1 Peseta La Puerta de Segura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Puerta de Segura |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all-typeset letterpress design in black ink. The large bold letters 'UNA' occupy the left half of the note vertically, while the issuer text 'Consejo Municipal / DE / LA PUERTA DE SEGURA / (Jaén)' is set in the upper right, separated by thin horizontal rules. The denomination word 'peseta' appears in large bold lowercase type at the lower right, underlined by a double rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE LA PUERTA DE SEGURA (Jaén) UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Of La Puerta de Segura (Jaén) One Peseta) |
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La Puerta de Segura is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's catastrophic small-change crisis. From 1936 onward, hoarding drained copper and silver from circulation almost entirely, forcing hundreds of town councils — ayuntamientos and consejos municipales — to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Consejo Municipal designation rather than Ayuntamiento suggests the town was operating under a wartime administrative arrangement, likely Republican-controlled at time of issue.
Thick card stock was a common workaround when proper banknote paper was unavailable to small issuers with no access to official printing infrastructure.