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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torreperogil |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Torreperogil (Jaén) pagará al portador UNA Peseta Nota.-Este bono será nulo si se dobla. |
| Reverse description | Blank white card stock bearing a single hand-applied circular municipal ink stamp in blue-violet, positioned towards the upper left. The stamp carries the legend of the Ayuntamiento de Torreperogil around its circumference and encloses a central device, serving as the sole validation mark on an otherwise unprinted surface. |
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Torreperogil is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia. This note is one of thousands of emergency issues produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War (1936–39), when the removal of coin from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to the chaos of war — left local economies without small-denomination exchange. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses filled the void with improvised paper, printing runs that were often tiny and entirely local in scope.
Card stock was a practical choice when proper banknote paper was unobtainable. Survival rates for these hyperlocal emissions are low; many were never redeemed after Nationalist forces consolidated control.