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1 Peseta Lújar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lújar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and red on plain paper, the note carries a decorative rectangular border composed of dotted guilloche-style ornamental chain links. To the left, a vertical panel in red contains the denomination numeral '1 PTA.' flanked by stylised arrow and fan motifs at top and bottom. The text field to the right bears the issuer's name in red script at the top, the value statement in green letterpress text in the centre, the place and date of issue below, and a manuscript authorisation signature over a violet official stamp. The printer's imprint 'Papelería Lacoste - Almería' appears in small red letterpress along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no design, text, or ornamental elements. |
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Lújar is a tiny village in the Alpujarras range of Granada province, and by 1937 the Republican government's inability to supply small-denomination coinage to rural municipalities had become acute enough that local councils were issuing their own paper currency. These emergency fractional notes — often called "billetes locales de necesidad" — proliferated across Republican-held Spain during this period, with each issuing body essentially operating on trust and local authority alone.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería handled printing for several Granada-area municipalities during the war, which gives this note a traceable production chain unusual for issues this small. The Gari Montaner catalogue reference 837-B distinguishes it from at least one variant within the Lújar series.