Catalog
0.05 Pesetas Melilla
| Issuer | Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Melilla (Municipality of Melilla) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher in red and black on plain paper, framed by a single-line rectangular border. The central vignette consists of a caduceus flanked by a cogwheel to the right and an anchor to the left, rendered in a simple line-art style. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear above and below the central motif. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the northern Moroccan coast, issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War when small coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation across Republican and Nationalist-held territories alike. Municipal bodies, trade unions, and even individual businesses across Spain filled the void with locally printed cartones and papeletas. Melilla, under Nationalist control from the war's very first days — it was among the first territories seized in July 1936 — issued these tiny notes through the Ayuntamiento to keep retail trade functioning.
The Gari catalogue reference is unassigned, suggesting this piece remains incompletely documented.