1 Peseta Rubite

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.