1 Peseta Quesada

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.