Catalog
1 Peseta Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain light grey card stock with a simple letterpress-printed double rectangular border framing the entire face. The layout is divided into two horizontal registers by an interior ruled line: the upper register carries the issuer inscription and the lower register the denomination legend, all in black sans-serif type of varying size. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal - Noalejo Vale una pta. (Translation: Municipal Council - Noalejo / Value one peseta.) |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of locally-issued emergency paper money — the billetes de necesidad — that proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after coin hoarding created a severe small-change crisis from 1936 onward. Municipal councils, trade unions, and shopkeeper associations all issued their own scrip, most of it on whatever card stock or heavy paper was locally available.
The thick substrate is typical of issues produced without access to a professional printer — likely a local stationer or press. Most of these municipal issues were redeemed or destroyed after the war, and pieces from villages of Noalejo's size rarely survived in any quantity.