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0.15 Pesetas Noalejo
| Issuer | Noalejo, Municipality of |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock with no vignette or ornamental border, bearing three lines of black letterpress text arranged vertically across the face. The issuing authority appears in large bold type at the top reading 'Frente Popular', the locality name 'NOALEJO' is set in spaced capitals at centre, and the denomination statement 'Vale por 0,15' occupies the lower portion in bold display type. The overall design is entirely typographic, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Frente Popular Noalejo Vale por 0,15 (Translation: Popular Front Noalejo Voucher for 0.15) |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of tiny towns across Republican-held Spain issued their own emergency fractional currency — cédulas locales — when coin hoarding and metal requisitioning stripped local commerce of anything useful for small transactions. A 0.15 peseta denomination suggests this was intended for everyday market exchange, filling the gap left by the disappearance of the copper five and ten céntimo pieces.
Documentation on Noalejo's local emission is sparse, and surviving examples are rare simply because so few were produced and fewer still were kept.