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1 Peseta Sabiote
| Issuer | Sabiote, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse of cream-coloured card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a single handwritten cursive signature in blue ink across the upper portion and a second handwritten inscription in a lighter hand towards the lower right, reading 'Sabiote', serving as authentication in lieu of a formal stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | Sabiote |
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Sabiote is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, with a population that barely exceeded two thousand in the 1930s. When the Civil War severed normal banking channels in the summer of 1936, hundreds of Spanish towns — particularly in Republican-held zones — printed their own emergency fractional currency to keep local commerce moving. Metallic coin had vanished almost overnight, hoarded or melted, and the central government could not fill the gap fast enough.
These municipal emergency notes, known collectively as "billetes locales," were produced under improvised conditions, often by local printers on whatever stock was available. The thick card composition of this issue was a practical choice — it survived handling better than thin paper in daily market use.