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1 Peseta Huelma
| Issuer | Huelma, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on buff-coloured paper, framed by a decorative geometric border with ornamental corner motifs and interlaced side panels. The issuer heading 'Comercio - Huelma' is set in large bold type at centre, above a two-line credit clause in smaller roman type, with the denomination 'Ptas. 1'00' printed in large bold numerals at lower centre. A faint circular stamp impression is visible at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Comercio - Huelma Vale de crédito de uso general y convenido. Ptas. 1'00 (Translation: Commerce - Huelma / General purpose and agreed credit voucher. / Pesetas 1.00) |
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Municipal emergency notes from Spanish Civil War-era town administrations fill a peculiar corner of Republican-zone numismatics. Huelma, a small municipality in Jaén province, issued low-denomination paper to address the acute shortage of fractional coinage that crippled local commerce after 1936 — the hoarding and melting of metallic currency left villages functionally unable to make change for everyday transactions.
Provincial and municipal issues like this one were tolerated rather than formally authorized by the Republican government, which repeatedly tried and failed to suppress parallel local emission.