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1 Peseta Rus
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Rus (Municipality of Rus) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Rus VALE UNA peseta (Translation: City Council of Rus It`s worth One Peseta) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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During the Spanish Civil War, severe coin shortages prompted hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency paper money — known as "moneda local" or "papel moneda municipal." Rus, a small agricultural town in the province of Cuenca, was one of them. These local emissions carried no backing beyond the issuing municipality's authority and were typically only accepted within the immediate locality.
The Gari Mon catalog reference is incomplete, suggesting this piece is either unlisted or only recently attributed. That ambiguity alone makes documentation of surviving examples worthwhile.