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10 Céntimos Noalejo

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Noalejo
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Reverse lettering NOALEJO (JAEN)
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Protection description Circular magenta ink municipal validation stamp applied to the reverse, enclosing a central heraldic device and the inscription 'NOALEJO (JAEN)'.
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Noalejo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this 10 céntimos piece belongs to the wave of emergency fractional currency — known collectively as papel moneda local — issued by Spanish town councils during the Civil War years of 1936–1939. With the Republic's small coinage effectively vanishing from circulation through hoarding and disruption, hundreds of municipalities printed their own stopgap notes, many of them crude by any standard.

The official stamp was the primary — often the only — authentication mechanism these councils could deploy quickly. For Noalejo, a town of a few thousand, the stamp of the Consejo Municipal was the difference between acceptable local tender and plain paper.

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