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25 Céntimos Jamilena
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Jamilena (Municipality of Jamilena) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark brown-black ink on cream card stock, with all text arranged centrally in a hierarchical layout. The issuing authority appears at the top in mixed-case lettering, followed by the municipality name 'JAMILENA' in large bold capitals, a decorative dash-and-dot separator, and the denomination 'Vale 25 Céntimos' in two lines below. The entire face is enclosed within a continuous ornamental border composed of interlocking chain-link and foliate elements, with corner embellishments of folded ribbon motifs. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de JAMILENA Vale 25 Céntimos (Translation: City Council of Jamilena Worth 25 Centimos) |
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Jamilena is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued fractional notes during the acute coin shortage of the Civil War years, roughly 1936–1939. The central Republican government never adequately supplied small-denomination coinage to the provinces, forcing ayuntamientos to improvise their own emergency scrip — legal within their own municipality, worthless anywhere else.
The Gari Mon reference being unassigned suggests this piece has not been formally catalogued in that corpus, which is not unusual for the smaller Jaén municipalities where surviving examples surface rarely and documentation remains incomplete.