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10 Céntimos Siles
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Siles |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on light blue-green paper, the note is enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with decorative corner blocks. The issuing authority name appears in ornate display type at the top, followed by the municipality name in bold capitals, the bearer clause in a smaller roman face, and the denomination in large bold type at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet control handstamp applied to the reverse, reading COMISION DE ABASTOS SILES (JAEN), accompanied by a handwritten serial number. |
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Siles is a small municipality in Jaén province, and this note was issued by its local supply commission — one of the thousands of emergency fractional pieces that flooded Republican-held Spain after July 1936, when the hoarding of metal coinage created an acute shortage of small change almost overnight. The Comisión de Abastos was a wartime rationing and supply body, not a financial institution, which makes its entry into currency issuance a measure of how completely the normal monetary infrastructure had collapsed at the municipal level.
The handstamp serves as the sole security feature — which is to say, almost none at all.