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5 Céntimos Esfiliana
| Issuer | Comité Local de Esfiliana |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed entirely in black letterpress, with the issuer's name 'COMITÉ LOCAL DE ESFILIANA' set in bold capital letters across the top, separated from the body text by a thin ornamental rule. The central field carries the denomination and bearer obligation in a mixed roman and italic typeface, followed by the place and date of issue. At the lower centre, a pink oval rubber stamp of the Federación de Trabajadores de la Tierra (U.G.T., Esfiliana, Granada) has been applied as a validation mark. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITÉ LOCAL DE ESFILIANA Vale por CINCO CÉNTIMOS DE PESETA que el Comité Local de Esfiliana pagará al portador en artículos de primera necesidad. Esfiliana y Septiembre de 1936. El Comité. (Translation: Local Committee of Esfiliana It is worth Five Centimos of a Peseta that the Local Committee of Esfiliana will pay to the bearer in basic necessities. Esfiliana and September 1936. The Committee.) |
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Esfiliana is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish villages in the summer of 1936, its local committee issued emergency fractional currency when the Civil War severed normal coin supply almost overnight. These hyper-local emissions — produced by town councils, trade union committees, and republican war committees alike — were typically printed or even hand-stamped on whatever paper was available, with validity strictly confined to the issuing locality.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, which usually means documentation is incomplete rather than that the piece is undiscovered. Survival rates for these village-level céntimos issues are erratic — some were redeemed and pulped, others simply discarded once the war moved on.