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10 Céntimos Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Size | 63 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design printed in black on cream card stock, enclosed within a single rectangular border frame. The text is arranged in four lines of varying weight, with the denomination numeral and unit rendered in a larger typeface at the base. No vignette or ornamental elements are present, consistent with the austere emergency issue character of Spanish Civil War municipal notes. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is largely blank on unprinted cream card stock, showing the natural texture and aging of the thick paper. A faint partial violet stamp impression is visible in the upper right corner area, likely a control or validation mark applied by municipal authorities. |
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Martos is a town in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not reaching rural areas. These local emissions, authorized under the pressures of 1936–1938, were technically provisional and almost never redeemed in any systematic way.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents the regional breadth of this phenomenon across Catalonia, the Levant, and Andalusia. The "-B" suffix here likely distinguishes a second variant — possibly a color or paper difference — from an earlier emission under the same denomination.