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0.25 Pesetas Villarreal
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villarreal (La Caja Rural U.H.P.) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a green guilloche underprint composed of repeated text reading 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLARREAL'. The heading 'La Caja Rural U. H. P.' appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, with the payment obligation legend in italic script below. Serial number and series designation appear in the upper register, while two signature lines — 'El Consejero Hacienda' and 'El Presidente del Consejo' — are printed at the foot, each with a manuscript signature. A circular violet control stamp is applied to the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | La Caja Rural U. H. P. Pagará al portador 0`25 ptas. con cargo a la cuenta corriente del Consejo Municipal de Villarreal EL CONSEJERO HACIENDA, P. Reverter EL PRESIDENTE DEL CONSEJO, V. Costa Núm. SERIE A (Translation: The Rural Fund U.H.P. Will pay the bearer 0.25 pesetas charged to the current account of the Municipal Council of Villarreal / THE FINANCE COUNCILLOR, P. Reverter / THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, V. Costa) |
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Villarreal's municipal council issued this quarter-peseta note during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republic's central government could not supply sufficient small change to keep local commerce functioning. The parenthetical "La Caja Rural U.H.P." is the giveaway — Unión de Hermanos Proletarios, the anarcho-syndicalist militia slogan, stamped its presence directly onto the issuing institution's name. Rural savings cooperatives across Republican Castellón were absorbed or renamed under UHP pressure in 1936–37.
These emergency municipal fractionals were printed in enormous variety across the Valencian region, and most had very short useful lives before being superseded or simply abandoned. The Gari Montaner catalog remains the primary reference for Spanish Civil War local issues.