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10 Céntimos Carchelejo
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Carchelejo |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comisión de Abastos de Carchelejo (Jaén) Vale 10 ctms. (Translation: Supplies Commission of Carchelejo (Jaén) It's worth 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted cream card stock bearing handwritten manuscript annotations in ink: a serial number in the upper left, a partial numeral in the upper right, and a cursive ink signature in the lower centre, all applied by hand at the time of issue. |
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Carchelejo is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágina region of Jaén province, and this 10 céntimos piece belongs to the vast emergency fractional currency issued across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when hoarding of metallic coin created near-total small-change paralysis by 1936–37. Thousands of municipalities, trade unions, and local committees printed their own solutions — the Comisión de Abastos, a supply rationing body, was an unlikely but not unusual issuing authority for such scrip.
Issues from villages of this size were produced in tiny quantities and rarely survived outside the immediate locality.