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0.10 Pesetas Villanueva del Arzobispo
| Issuer | Villanueva del Arzobispo, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Blue fractional emergency note with an ornamental border framing the entire face and a radiant sun motif in the background underprint. The central text block carries the issuing legend naming the three local industrial concerns and the stated value of 0.10 pesetas, with the date 15 July 1937 and place of issue at foot. The overall composition is typeset in letterpress style without a pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text on a plain ground enclosed by an ornamental guilloche border. A central allegorical vignette portrays a seated female figure wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a torch, sword, and cornucopia, accompanied by a lion — iconography emblematic of the Spanish Republic. The surrounding text sets out the conditions of use and redemption of the fractional notes. |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal fractional notes produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the hoarding of metallic coinage created an acute shortage of small change. Villanueva del Arzobispo, a small olive-growing town in Jaén province, issued its own cardboard-and-paper scrip simply because there was nothing else to make change with. The Generalitat and central Republican authorities never fully resolved the coin shortage, so local committees filled the gap with whatever printing resources they had at hand.
Gari Montllor catalogued over a thousand such local emissions from this period. Most were produced in tiny quantities and saw only neighborhood circulation.