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50 Céntimos Marmolejo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Marmolejo |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Marmolejo (Jaén) Vale 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council Marmolejo (Jaén) It's worth 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Essentially plain reverse on unprinted cream card stock, bearing scattered violet ink strike-through from the obverse stamp and what appears to be a handwritten collector notation in pencil near the upper right corner. No printed design or lettering is present. |
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Marmolejo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after coins vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. These municipal pieces — often printed on whatever card or paper stock was at hand — were authorised under a broader Republican government provision allowing local councils to issue small-denomination scrip to keep daily commerce functional.
The thick card construction is characteristic of improvised local production rather than any professional security printer. Survival rates for these pieces are erratic: some small-town emissions were destroyed in enormous quantities when the Nationalist advance reached Andalusia; others survived precisely because no one bothered to redeem them.