10 Céntimos Carchelejo

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.