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1 Peseta Castuera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castuera |
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| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographic letterpress issue in dark blue-grey ink on cream paper, enclosed within a double-ruled dashed border with small square corner ornaments at each angle. The issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CASTUERA' is set in bold serif capitals across the upper register, with the series designation 'Serie C' centred below in a smaller roman face. The denomination 'UNA' is set in large bold display type at centre, flanked by the value legends 'VALE POR' to the left and 'PESETA' to the right, forming the complete value statement across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, plain cream paper consistent with the wartime austerity character of this local Civil War emergency voucher. |
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Castuera is a small town in Extremadura, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These consejo municipal notes were produced locally — often by village printers with no banknote experience — and circulated within a tightly bounded geographic radius, sometimes a single town.
Gari Mon #503-C places this within a documented series, but municipal issues from Extremadura are among the harder pieces to trace with confidence: many were printed in tiny quantities, never formally redeemed, and survived only by accident.