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1 Peseta Bedmar
| Issuer | Municipality of Bedmar (Province of Jaén) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note printed in black letterpress throughout. A dashed-rule rectangular border frames the entire face, with a denser column of vertical dashes running along both lateral edges. The upper register carries the issuing authority in bold display type reading 'Consejo Municipal' above the locality name 'BEDMAR' in smaller capitals, with the denomination statement 'Vale 1 peseta.' set in large roman type in the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse of plain tan card stock, showing natural aging and surface wear consistent with wartime emergency issue material. |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency emissions that flooded Andalusia and the rest of Republican Spain after the July 1936 military uprising fractured the national coin supply. With silver and copper hoarded almost overnight, local councils, trade unions, and even individual businesses were left to improvise their own fiduciary instruments. Bedmar, a small agricultural town in the olive-growing sierra north of Jaén, was no exception.
The Gari Mon reference is incomplete, which is unsurprising — systematic documentation of these hyper-local emissions remains unfinished work. Many Jaén municipal notes exist in only a handful of known copies.