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10 Céntimos Campillo de Arenas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Campillo de Arenas |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white card stock printed entirely in red by letterpress. A scalloped wave-and-dash ornamental border runs across both the top and bottom edges. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal' appears in large bold lettering across the upper centre, followed by 'Campillo de Arenas (Jaén)' in a smaller roman typeface separated by a horizontal rule, and the denomination 'Vale 0,10 cts.' in large bold type occupies the lower centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Campillo de Arenas (Jaén) Vale 0,10 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Campillo de Arenas (Jaén) It is worth 0.10 Centimos) |
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Campillo de Arenas is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágina range of Jaén province, Andalusia. This 10 céntimos piece belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally-issued emergency scrip that flooded rural Spain during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change coinage effectively disappeared from circulation in 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by wartime disruption. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses stepped in to fill the gap, producing makeshift substitutes of wildly varying quality.
At this size and on card stock, the distinction between "coin" and "note" collapses entirely. Gari Mon catalogues it, but surviving examples from villages this small are genuinely uncommon.