10 Pesetas Banco de España - Gijón

The Banco de España branch network issued a series of locally overprinted or locally authorized emergency notes during the summer and autumn of 1936, as the Civil War fractured the national payment system within weeks of the July uprising. Gijón, an industrial port in Asturias, remained under Republican control until October 1937, and these branch-issued notes circulated within that isolated pocket of the front while central banking infrastructure effectively ceased to function.

Asturias was cut off from the main Republican zone for most of its resistance, making local liquidity genuinely critical. Notes from the Gijón branch are scarcer than those of larger Republican-held cities — the population that used them did not survive the fall of the region intact.