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1 Peseta Marmolejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Marmolejo |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Marmolejo (Jaén) Vale UNA peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Marmolejo (Jaén) It's worth One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted plain card stock, bearing no text, vignettes, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Marmolejo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of locally issued emergency scrip that proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after 1936. With the central banking system disrupted and small coinage vanishing from circulation almost immediately, municipal councils across Spain were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to print their own fractional currency. Thousands of distinct types were issued by towns, unions, and cooperatives, many in tiny print runs that have since become genuinely rare.
The Gari Montserrat reference confirms legitimate catalog recognition, but documentation on Marmolejo's specific emission remains thin.