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10 Céntimos Sabiote
| Issuer | Sabiote, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green ink on cream card stock, the face is framed by a continuous border of small squares forming a decorative guilloche-like perimeter. The denomination '10 Céntimos' is set in bold letterpress type at centre, flanked above by the legend 'Vale por' and below by 'que pagará al portador', with a cautionary note at the foot reading 'Nota: Es nulo si va doblado'. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 10 Céntimos que pagará al portador Nota: Es nulo si va doblado (Translation: Valid for 10 Centimos that will be paid to the bearer Note: It is null if it is folded) |
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Sabiote is a small hilltop municipality in Jaén province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency in the summer of 1936 after the Civil War's outbreak froze the circulation of small coins almost overnight. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change forced local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to fill the gap themselves — legally ambiguous but practically necessary.
These Jaén provincial issues were typically produced on whatever card stock was locally available, often on printing equipment better suited to letterheads or receipts. Survival rates vary enormously by municipality; some towns printed in the hundreds, others in the tens of thousands.