1 Peseta Rus

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.