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1 Peseta Valdepeñas de Jaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Valdepeñas de Jaén VALE POR 1 Peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Valdepeñas de Jaén Voucher for 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted cream card stock carrying a large, elaborate handwritten signature in dark ink occupying most of the surface, with a partial circular red ink official stamp visible at lower left. Pencilled collector annotations appear at upper right. |
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Valdepeñas de Jaén is a small municipality in the sierra north of Jaén city, and its municipal council issued this peseta note as an emergency local substitute during the acute coin shortage that plagued Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. With silver and copper coinage hoarded, melted, or simply absent from daily transactions, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many of them tiny — printed their own cartones and vales just to keep commerce moving. The thick card stock was a practical choice: easier to produce locally without specialist printing equipment, and more durable than thin paper in daily handling.
Survival rates for these hyperlocal emissions vary wildly. Notes from small Jaén-province municipalities were rarely preserved systematically.