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50 Céntimos Frailes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Frailes |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pale unprinted paper note with octagonally chamfered corners, printed entirely in black letterpress. The legend "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE FRAILES (JAÉN)" runs in bold uppercase across the upper portion, bisected by a small circular ornamental vignette, with both halves of the inscription underlined. The denomination "Vale 50 céntimos" is set in large display type in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE FRAILES (JAÉN) Vale 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Frailes (Jaén) It's worth 50 Céntimos) |
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Frailes is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War — a practice repeated across hundreds of Republican-controlled municipalities after the 1936 military uprising severed normal supply chains and caused coins to vanish almost entirely from circulation. These hyper-local emissions were authorized under a Republican government decree permitting municipal bodies to issue provisional currency when the national supply collapsed.
Most of these municipal notes were crudely produced, often on whatever paper was available, with rudimentary rubber-stamp or typeset printing. Survival rates vary wildly — small-town issues from villages like Frailes were rarely documented systematically, and quantities issued were typically tiny.