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0.25 Pesetas Villanueva del Arzobispo
| Issuer | Villanueva del Arzobispo, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green fractional emergency note with a decorative ornamental border framing the entire face, a radiant sun motif as underprint, and central text block bearing the issuing authority and value. The inscription identifies three local industries as co-issuers and establishes the note's face value of 0.25 pesetas, dated 15 July 1937. The overall design is typographic in character, with guilloche-style border ornamentation. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0`25 La emisión de estos boletos se ha efectuado al exclusivo objeto de facilitar las operaciones comerciales de las Industrias de la localidad, J. Gallardo Gómez, Electra de la Fuensanta y San Miguel Arcángel, S. A. por tanto solo tienen valor dentro del Término Municipal de Villanueva del Arzobispo. Pueden ser canjeables por Billetes del Banco de España en cualquiera de las oficinas emisoras o bien en los Banco Español de Crédito o Central de la plaza en los cuales queda hecho el depósito del importe total de la emisión. (Translation: The issuance of these tickets has been carried out for the exclusive purpose of facilitating the commercial operations of the local Industries, J. Gallardo Gómez, Electra de la Fuensanta and San Miguel Arcángel, S. A. therefore they only have value within the Municipal Term of Villanueva del Arzobispo. They can be exchanged for Banknotes of the Bank of Spain at any of the issuing offices or at the Banco Español de Crédito or Central Bank of the place in which the deposit of the total amount of the issue is made.) |
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Villanueva del Arzobispo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it was forced to issue its own fractional currency during 1936–37 after the Republic's central coin supply collapsed almost immediately following the military uprising. Silver and copper were hoarded or melted; small change simply vanished from circulation. Local emergency issues — known collectively as moneda local or billetes de necesidad — filled the gap, printed or sometimes even rubber-stamped by town councils working with whatever materials were at hand.
Gari Mon 1616-B indicates a variant within the Villanueva del Arzobispo series, suggesting at least two distinguishable types were produced for this denomination.