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1 Peseta Rubite
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Rubite |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey-blue paper note produced by letterpress, with the issuing authority and redeemable value stated in black typeset text arranged in three tiers across the centre. The denomination UNA PESETA is set in large bold capitals, flanked above by the obligation clause and below by the title El Presidente. A large handwritten blue ink signature of the Municipal President extends across the lower half of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on plain grey-blue fibrous paper, showing no text, vignette, or ornamental devices of any kind. |
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Rubite is a tiny municipality in the Alpujarras region of Granada province, and like hundreds of similarly small Spanish towns, its ayuntamiento issued emergency paper money during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. These hyper-local municipal notes — often printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes hand-stamped rather than properly typeset — exist in bewildering variety, and Gari Mon remains the essential reference for sorting them out.
Survival is largely a matter of accident. Notes from villages this small rarely circulated beyond a few dozen hands before the war's end rendered them worthless.