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1 Peseta Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress, with the issuing authority's name and promise-to-pay legend arranged in three typeset lines of varying weight. The denomination "UNA peseta" is set in bold display capitals along the lower portion. A single rectangular border frames the entire text field. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream card stock, bearing a faint violet circular official stamp impression at the lower left, consistent with municipal authentication practice for Spanish Civil War emergency issues. The perforated edges visible on all sides indicate the notes were machine-separated from sheets. |
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Martos is a small olive-growing municipality in Jaén province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. These local issues — known as "papel moneda local" — were produced under municipal authority, often on whatever card stock was available, with no standardized printing infrastructure behind them.
The Gari Monerris catalog reference places this firmly within the documented Andalusian municipal issues, but surviving examples from Martos are genuinely scarce — small towns produced short runs, and wartime conditions destroyed a great deal of what circulated.