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1 Peseta Quesada
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Quesada |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted paper stock bearing a large oval official validation stamp in violet ink at centre, enclosing a heraldic coat of arms vignette and reading QUESADA * CONSE[JO] / (Jaén) around the perimeter. A handwritten notation appears in ink at upper right. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Consejo Municipal de Quesada issued this note in 1936 as part of the wave of emergency fractional currency that flooded Republican-controlled Spain when the military uprising triggered an immediate coin shortage. Silver was hoarded, copper disappeared, and hundreds of municipalities printed their own paper to keep local commerce moving. Quesada, a small town in the Jaén province of Andalusia, was among them.
The official stamp was the only security measure available at this level — municipal issues like this relied on local recognition rather than technical forgery deterrence. Jaén province remained under Republican control until the final weeks of the war in early 1939.