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5 Pesetas Porcuna
| Issuer | Porcuna, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black letterpress on a light yellow underprint incorporating the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic. An ornamental perimeter frame borders the note, with the municipal coat of arms of Porcuna positioned to the left. The central text panel carries the issuing authority's declaration and denomination in formal typography dated 1 September 1936. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue on white paper, enclosed by a scalloped guilloche border of uniform dotted pattern. To the left, a serial number panel with the prefix 'Nº' appears above a square vignette carrying the large numeral '5' on a hatched underprint; to the right, the guarantee text is set in justified letterpress within the same border. |
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Porcuna is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it was forced to print its own emergency fractional currency in the summer of 1936 when the Civil War severed normal banking operations and coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight. These local Republican-zone issues were produced under improvised conditions — often by local print shops with no security printing experience — and the vast majority circulated heavily within the town itself, redeemed or destroyed once central authority restored some monetary order.
Provincial municipio notes from Jaén are among the more difficult to source today; survival rates were low and documentation remains patchy.