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1 Peseta Torredonjimeno
| Issuer | Torredonjimeno, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress composition on thick card stock, with the issuer name and face value rendered in black typeface enclosed within a wide rectangular border rule. The text is arranged in a simple, utilitarian layout typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse bearing a handwritten serial number in the upper right corner and a manuscript authorisation text with a cursive handwritten signature applied in violet ink, consistent with the countersigning practice common to Spanish Republican municipal emergency notes of the period. |
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Torredonjimeno is a small olive-producing town in Jaén province, and this note is one of thousands of emergency municipal emissions that flooded Republican-held Spain after July 1936, when the hoarding of metal coinage — silver and copper alike — created an acute small-change crisis within weeks of the military uprising. Municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses issued their own scrip out of sheer necessity, with no central coordination and wildly varying production quality.
The thick card stock was deliberate: flimsier paper wore out too quickly in daily market use, and these notes were expected to circulate hard in a local economy under wartime stress.