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5 Céntimos Carchelejo
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Carchelejo (Province of Jaén) |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comisión de Abastos de Carchelejo (Jaén) Vale 5 Céntimos (Translation: Supplies Commission of Carchelejo (Jaén) It's worth 5 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse of buff card stock, applied with an oval municipal rubber stamp in ink and a handwritten serial number and signature in black ink, serving as the primary authentication elements for this emergency issue. |
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Carchelejo is a small municipality in the sierra north of Jaén, and like dozens of similarly isolated Andalusian villages, it resorted to locally issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican-zone copper and small silver coinage effectively vanished from circulation by late 1936. The Comisión de Abastos — a rationing and supply committee rather than any banking authority — had no formal mandate to issue currency, which is precisely why these pieces exist in such uncertain quantities today. Many were never catalogued at all, and the Gari reference remains unassigned.