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1 Peseta Villanueva de la Jara
| Issuer | Municipal Council of Villanueva de la Jara |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on plain paper, with a geometric border framing the entire face. A central allegorical vignette portrays a seated female figure wearing a Phrygian cap, leaning against a republican shield, accompanied by a lion, a torch, a sword, and a cornucopia — emblems of the Spanish Republic and its ideals. The issuer inscription and denomination are set within the framed composition in bold lettering. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely unprinted, showing plain cream-toned paper with a broad vertical orange-ochre band running centrally from top to bottom edge, likely a paper stock marking or banding remnant. A handwritten numeral notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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Villanueva de la Jara is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castile-La Mancha, and this note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed retail trade across Republican Spain from mid-1936 onward. With the central government unable to supply sufficient fractional currency, hundreds of town councils — many with no financial expertise whatsoever — printed their own emergency scrip. The legal basis was improvised; the results were wildly uneven.
The Gari Monerris catalogue documents over a thousand such local emissions from the Civil War period. That this piece carries a distinct reference number is itself meaningful — many comparable issues survive in only a handful of examples.