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25 Céntimos Carchelejo
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Carchelejo |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in ochre-buff tone printed in black letterpress throughout. A rectangular dashed-rule border with rounded corners frames the entire face. The issuing authority's name appears in the upper half in two lines of serif type, separated by a smaller connector word, followed by the locality and province in parentheses; a small ornamental divider separates this text from the large-format denomination statement 'Vale 25 ctms.' set in bold display type in the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain ochre-buff card stock, bearing a single handwritten signature in ink applied in the lower centre area as an authorisation mark. |
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Carchelejo is a village in the sierra north of Jaén, Andalusia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of small Republican municipalities during the Civil War, the local Comisión de Abastos — a supply or rationing committee rather than a formal bank — issued fractional scrip to substitute for hoarded or evacuated coin. These emergency emissions were purely local instruments, often printed by whatever press was available in the nearest town, and rarely circulated beyond the issuing municipality's weekly market.
The extreme scarcity of surviving Carchelejo pieces is almost certainly a function of how few were ever produced, not of destruction.