Catalog
25 Céntimos Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellowish card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. A double-ruled rectangular border frames the entire face, with a horizontal rule dividing the field into two registers: the upper register carries the issuer inscription and the lower, larger register bears the denomination. The note is entirely typographic with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain yellowish card stock, showing the natural texture and grain of the thick paper substrate with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, with a population that barely reached two thousand during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Spanish towns, its local council issued emergency fractional currency — "moneda local de necesidad" — during the Civil War to address the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. Silver and copper had been hoarded or requisitioned almost immediately after July 1936, leaving local commerce effectively paralysed without some substitute.
These municipal emissions were produced under improvised conditions, typically by a local printer with whatever card or heavy paper stock was at hand. No two towns' issues look quite alike, and quality of execution varies dramatically even within a single series.