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5 Céntimos Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Size | 63 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellowish card stock with all text applied in black letterpress, enclosed within a single rectangular border frame. The denomination 'Cinco céntimos' appears at the top, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule, with the issuing authority name spread across two centred lines in the middle field. The promise-to-pay legend and numeral value '5 cts.' are set in the lower register, with a faint circular official stamp visible at centre left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cinco céntimos El Ayuntamiento de Martos, pagará al portador 5 cts. (Translation: Five Centimos The City Council of Martos, will pay the bearer 5 Centimos) |
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Martos is a small Andalusian municipality in Jaén province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. Republican authorities hoarded metal; ordinary commerce ground to a halt without small change. Municipal and cooperative issues like this one — printed on whatever card stock was locally available — filled that void at the hyper-local level, often accepted only within the issuing town's own markets.
The Gari catalogue (Monedas y Billetes Locales) documents considerable variation within the Martos municipal series; the -A suffix here indicates a specific paper or typography variant rather than a distinct denomination issue.