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25 Céntimos Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Size | 56 × 41 mm |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream card stock bearing a partially applied violet ink hand-stamp in the upper right area. The circular stamp encloses a municipal coat of arms at its centre and carries the legend NOALEJO along its outer arc, validating the note as an officially authorised token issue. |
| Reverse lettering | NOALEJO |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágina comarca of Jaén province, Andalusia. This 25 céntimos note belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency fractional currency — conocida as "billetes de necesidad" — that flooded rural Spain during the Civil War after the hoarding of coins and the collapse of reliable small-denomination supply made everyday commerce nearly impossible. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own scrip from 1936 onward, most with only a council rubber stamp for authentication.
The official stamp is the only security element preventing counterfeiting by a neighboring village.