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1 Peseta Rus
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Rus (Municipality of Rus) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de RUS VALE Una peseta No será válido este billete si está doblado o roto. (Translation: City Council of Rus Valid for One Peseta This note will not be valid if it is bent or torn.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse carries a large oval official rubber stamp applied in violet ink, bearing the legend SECRETARIA CONSEJO MUNICIPAL RUS around the perimeter and enclosing a central vignette of the Spanish royal coat of arms. The stamp impression is slightly offset and inverted relative to the note orientation, consistent with hand-applied authentication practice on Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation forced hundreds of municipalities across Republican-held territory to issue their own emergency paper. Rus, a small agricultural town in Jaén province, was one of them. These local emissions — technically illegal under existing monetary law but tolerated out of necessity — were produced with whatever materials were at hand, typically on card stock using a hand stamp for authentication.
The official stamp was the sole safeguard against counterfeiting, and in a town of a few thousand people, it probably sufficed. Survival rates for these municipal issues vary wildly; many were redeemed and pulped, others simply discarded once the war ended and the issuing authority ceased to exist.