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10 Céntimos Bailén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bailén |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress design in black ink on grey paper, enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border. The issuing authority legend appears in the upper portion, with the large denomination numeral and abbreviation centred in the middle field, over a pink rubber-stamp impression. A series letter and serial number are set in the lower panel beneath a dividing rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of grey coarse paper, bearing a partially legible circular pink rubber-stamp impression of the municipal seal of Bailén applied at centre. |
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Bailén's municipal council issued emergency fractional paper during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republic's coin shortage became acute enough that villages and towns across Andalusia printed their own scrip to keep local commerce moving. Bailén — a small Jaén province town — produced this 10 céntimos note under that same pressured necessity. Municipal issues at this scale were rarely printed by professional firms; most were produced locally on whatever press was available, which accounts for the enormous variation in paper quality and impression found across surviving examples of the Gari Mon series.