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1 Peseta Lupión
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Lupión (Municipality of Lupión) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design printed entirely in red on cream card stock, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with corner ornaments. The issuing authority inscription appears at the top, above a central panel bearing the denomination in large bold type flanked by small floral ornaments at each side. The town name is set in large capitals along the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock with a typeset letterpress layout printed in red. A vertical serial number is set along the left margin, preceded by the abbreviation 'Nº.'. To the right, a validity notice occupies the upper portion, below which the Mayor's title and printed surname appear as the authorising signature. |
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Lupión is a small olive-growing municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Notes like this one — municipal emergency issues known as moneda local or papel moneda municipal — proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War when coin hoarding and metal requisitioning collapsed small-denomination circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of town councils, worker collectives, and local committees produced their own substitute currency, most of it printed on whatever card or heavy paper was available locally.
The Gari catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the -B suffix here likely distinguishes a variant — possibly in paper weight, color, or overprint — from another recorded type for the same denomination and issuer.