10 Céntimos Marmolejo

Marmolejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it faced an acute shortage of small change almost immediately after July 1936. The Republican government's emergency decree authorizing local committees to issue provisional fractional currency opened the door to thousands of these hyper-local emissions, most printed on whatever stock was available — hence the heavy card feel of many surviving pieces.

The Comité del Frente Popular designation places this firmly in the early war period, before municipal authorities replaced Popular Front committee branding on official emissions. Fragile infrastructure and minimal print runs mean attrition was high.