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1 Peseta Lillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lillo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue on plain white paper, with the issuer's name 'El Consejo Municipal de Lillo' across the top and the denomination numeral '1'00' in the upper right. The central legend 'UNA PESETA' is set in large bold type above two printed signature lines for 'El Presidente' and 'El Consejero de Hacienda', with a circular municipal dry stamp applied to the middle field. A dotted geometric border runs along the left edge of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Lillo 1'00 Pagará al portador UNA PESETA El Presidente, El Consejero de Hacienda, (Translation: The Municipal Council of Lillo / 1.00 / Will pay the bearer / ONE PESETA / The President, / The Finance Councillor,) |
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Lillo is a small municipality in the Toledo province of Castile-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper currency in 1936–37 to offset the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply pushed this responsibility onto local bodies with no printing infrastructure — most of these notes were produced by local printers, sometimes on whatever paper stock was available.
Gari Mon #823-C suggests a variant within the Lillo issue, likely a color or serial differentiation. Provincial municipal issues of this type are systematically underresearched.