Catalog
5 Céntimos Noalejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Noalejo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain off-white card stock printed in blue ink throughout. The issuing authority "Consejo Municipal" and locality "Noalejo (Jaén)" are set in bold letterpress type in the upper portion, separated from the denomination line "Vale 0,05 cts." by a thin horizontal rule. Repetitive guilloche-style ornamental borders, incorporating small leaf or feather motifs at their centres, run along the full width of both the top and bottom edges. |
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| Reverse description | Off-white card stock bearing a large circular official rubber stamp applied in dark blue-black ink, reading "NOALEJO (JAÉN) * CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" around the perimeter, with an irregular central vignette that appears to represent a coat of arms or municipal seal. A handwritten signature or validation mark in blue ink crosses the lower portion of the reverse. |
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Noalejo is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágina comarca of Jaén province, and like hundreds of similarly sized Andalusian towns, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone copper and silver coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by late 1936. These municipal cartones — printed on card or heavy paper rather than banknote stock — were purely local instruments, accepted only within the issuing municipality and typically worthless a few kilometers away.
The Gari catalogue documents this as the sole denomination type for Noalejo. Survival rates for provincial cartones of this type are highly uneven; many were never redeemed and simply discarded once the war ended.