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1 Peseta San Rafael del Río
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de San Rafael del Río |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA DE SAN RAFAEL DEL RIO |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied oval municipal stamp of the Alcaldía de San Rafael del Río on the reverse, used as the primary authentication device. |
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San Rafael del Río is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the chronic shortage of small coin made daily commerce nearly impossible. These hyper-local municipally issued notes — collectively called "billetes de necesidad" — were produced under no central standard, which accounts for the wide variation in card weight and print quality across surviving examples.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the documented Valencian Community series, but survival rates for San Rafael del Río issues are low given the town's tiny population and the chaos of the Nationalist advance through Castellón in 1938.