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5 Céntimos Marjaliza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Marjaliza |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed entirely in black by letterpress, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. The large numeral '5' occupies the left half of the note, while the right half carries the issuer inscription in bold serif type, separated by horizontal rules, with the denomination 'céntimos' in a larger blackletter typeface at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank cream paper reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink, partially legible, reading 'MARJALIZA (Toledo)' around its circumference with a central device, serving as the sole authenticating element on this emergency issue. |
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Marjaliza is a village in the Toledo province of Castile-La Mancha with a population that rarely exceeded a few hundred people. That a municipal council there issued emergency fractional paper during the Spanish Civil War is not unusual — hundreds of similarly tiny localities did the same between 1936 and 1939 when Republican Spain faced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. What makes these hyper-local emissions interesting is the near-total absence of any printing infrastructure: most were produced on whatever materials the consejo could source locally, often by hand or on basic office equipment.
The Garicoin reference suggests only a single known type for this denomination from Marjaliza, which is consistent with a one-time emergency run rather than an organized series.