Catalog
0.05 Pesetas Noalejo
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Noalejo (Popular Front of Noalejo) |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1002-F |
| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black ink by letterpress, entirely typographic in design with no vignette or ornamental border. The issuing authority legend 'Frente Popular' appears in the upper portion in a larger mixed-case typeface, with 'NOALEJO' centred below in spaced capital letters, and the denomination statement 'Vale por 0,05' in the lower portion in a bold mixed-case type. |
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| Obverse lettering | Frente Popular Noalejo Vale por 0,05 (Translation: Popular Front Noalejo Voucher for 0.05) |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this fractional note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the Republic's silver and bronze coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936. With the central government unable to supply small change to every village, local committees — including Frentes Populares like this one — printed their own.
At 59 × 41 mm on card stock, this is effectively a chit, not a banknote in any traditional sense. The Gari catalogue remains the primary reference for these municipales, and even there documentation is fragmentary — survival rates for issues from villages of this size are extremely low.