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1 Peseta Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Size | 56 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL NOALEJO (JAEN) Vale 1,00 peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Noalejo (Jaen) Value 1.00 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream-grey card stock bearing a single large circular official rubber stamp applied in red-pink ink at centre, containing a coat of arms vignette and partial text reading "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" and "NOALEJO (JAEN)", with a small star device; the ink is heavily bled in the centre obscuring part of the device. |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia. This note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues — locally produced fractional currency that proliferated across Republican-held towns from 1936 onward when coin hoarding caused severe small-change shortages. The Consejo Municipal replaced the pre-war Ayuntamiento structure in Republican zones, so the issuing authority itself is a political artifact of the war.
At this size and on card stock, these pieces were essentially printed chits. The official stamp was the only meaningful authentication — the difference between legal tender and forgery in a town of a few hundred people came down to a single ink impression.