Catalog
1 Peseta Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain thick paper note printed in black letterpress, with a repeating geometric ornamental border running along the top and bottom edges, each incorporating a small leaf or feather motif at centre. The issuing authority and locality are set in bold serif type in the upper portion, divided from the denomination by a solid horizontal rule. The face value is rendered in large bold type in the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of thick cream-coloured card stock, showing faint ink show-through from the obverse letterpress impression at centre, along with minor surface soiling consistent with circulation wear. |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia — hardly a financial institution by any definition, yet its municipal council issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, as did hundreds of similarly sized towns across the Republican zone when the Nationalist blockade caused a catastrophic shortage of small coinage. These local emissions, collectively documented by Gari and others under the broader *guerra civil* cartonnage catalogues, were often printed on whatever card stock was at hand, signed by local officials, and circulated within the immediate town limits only.
The Gari Mon#1002-E reference places this squarely within the documented Jaén provincial emissions, though surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely uncommon — small towns issued small quantities, and few bothered to preserve them after the war ended.