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10 Céntimos Valdepeñas de Jaén

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén
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Obverse description Plain cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with no vignette or decorative elements. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' is set in bold uppercase at the top, followed by 'Valdepeñas de Jaén' in smaller type, separated from the lower text by a ruled horizontal line. Below, the voucher legend 'VALE POR' and the denomination '10 Cts.' are printed in bold uppercase characters.
Obverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL
Valdepeñas de Jaén
VALE POR
10 Cts.
(Translation: Municipal Council Valdepeñas de Jaén Voucher for 10 Centimos)
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Valdepeñas de Jaén is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágina range, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues from this province are among the least-documented of the Republican zone scrip — print runs were small, record-keeping was inconsistent, and survival rates are low simply because nobody thought to preserve what was effectively pocket change.

The thick card stock was a practical choice: lightweight paper would not have survived even brief handling at market stalls and local commerce.

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