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10 Céntimos El Guijo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Guijo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink on cream card stock, with the issuer title 'Consejo Municipal de EL GUIJO' across the top in bold serif type. Two horizontal decorative borders formed by repeating scallop or festoon ornaments frame the central text area, which carries the pay-to-bearer clause in italic script and the denomination '10 Céntimos' in large display type flanked by arrow pointers at left and right. The guarantee clause 'Valor provisional garantido' appears in italic below the denomination, aligned to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged yellow-ochre card stock, bearing a single circular violet ink stamp applied at centre. The stamp carries text around its circumference referencing the Consejo Municipal and includes an inner device, serving as the validating authority mark for this emergency issue. |
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El Guijo is a small municipality in the comarca of Los Pedroches, Córdoba province, and like hundreds of similarly minor Spanish towns it was forced to produce its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation by late 1936. These municipal emissions — billetes de necesidad — were typically authorized by the local consejo or junta and printed or stamped on whatever card or heavy paper stock was available locally, which accounts for the irregular thickness often found across surviving examples from the same issue.
Gari Montllor's catalog remains the definitive reference for this class of material, and the 752-A designation places this firmly in the documented Córdoba provincial series.