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1 Peseta Librilla
| Issuer | Municipio de Librilla |
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| Size | 75 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Entirely letterpress-printed in red ink on plain paper, the face is enclosed within a geometric border composed of repeating diamond and dash ornaments. The issuer name, series letter, and serial number appear across the upper portion, with the denomination line in bold type at centre. A handwritten signature of the Interventor appears below the denomination, above the guarantee clause at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Nº 00823 MUNICIPIO DE LIBRILLA Circulación local VALE por UNA peseta El Interventor, Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España |
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Librilla is a small municipality in the Region of Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued paper during the Civil War to plug the catastrophic shortage of small change that hit the Republic from 1936 onward. The central government's inability to maintain a functioning fractional coinage supply forced municipalities, trade unions, and commercial enterprises across loyalist Spain to print their own emergency scrip — these emissions are collectively known as billetes locales de necesidad.
The Gari Montserrat catalogue remains the standard reference for these Spanish local issues, and the -B suffix here indicates a distinct variety within the Librilla 1 Peseta emission.