Arjonilla is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War when coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues of this period were driven by pure practical necessity — the Republican government in Madrid could not supply small change fast enough, so local councils printed their own.
The Gari Montaner catalog documents an extraordinary number of these provincial emissions, many surviving in tiny quantities. Notes from Arjonilla specifically are among the less frequently encountered Jaén provincial issues.
Arjonilla is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War when coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues of this period were driven by pure practical necessity — the Republican government in Madrid could not supply small change fast enough, so local councils printed their own.
The Gari Montaner catalog documents an extraordinary number of these provincial emissions, many surviving in tiny quantities. Notes from Arjonilla specifically are among the less frequently encountered Jaén provincial issues.