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1 Peseta Marmolejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Marmolejo |
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| Size | 59 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream-coloured thick card stock, the obverse is divided into three horizontal registers by double rules. A row of small repeating geometric ornaments runs across the upper border, serving as a rudimentary decorative band. The issuing authority is set in two lines of letterpress type — 'Consejo Municipal' in a large semi-serif face above 'Marmolejo (Jaén)' in a smaller roman typeface — followed by the denomination 'Vale 1'00 pts.' in bold display type within the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Marmolejo (Jaén) Vale 1'00 pts. (Translation: Municipal Council / Marmolejo (Jaén) / Worth 1.00 Pesetas) |
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Marmolejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to replace hoarded coinage. These municipally issued pieces — collectively called "billetes locales" or "moneda de necesidad" — were produced under wildly inconsistent conditions, often on whatever card stock or printing equipment the local council could commandeer.
The thick card format was typical of issues meant to survive heavy handling in a tight local economy, though many municipal issues from small Andalusian towns are now extremely scarce simply because so few were ever printed to begin with.