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1 Peseta Belmez
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Belmez |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on plain paper stock with a decorative black border composed of foliate scrollwork and rose motifs at each corner, enclosing the issuer and denomination text. A single vertical green stripe runs centrally across the full height of the note as an underprint security element. The inscription is arranged in three tiers within the frame, with the denomination rendered in large bold type at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse, largely unprinted, bearing a single handwritten authorization signature applied in violet ink at centre, accompanied by a small green circular seal impression. |
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Belmez is a small coal-mining municipality in the province of Córdoba, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional issues — conocidos as billetes locales or vales — that flooded Republican-held Spain after the military uprising of July 1936 collapsed the normal coin supply almost overnight. The Frente Popular committees administering these towns were left to improvise their own small-change solutions, usually with whatever printing resources existed locally.
Gari's catalog documents considerable variation within Belmez emissions, and type 258-A likely distinguishes an early printing state or a specific paper stock from later issues. Attribution to a single print run is difficult — many of these local bodies issued in small batches as need arose.