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0.50 Pesetas Villanueva de Alcardete
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Villanueva de Alcardete |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale yellow card stock bearing a circular blue municipal stamp at left, with an armorial vignette at its centre and the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - VILLANUEVA DE ALCARDETE' around the rim. Two handwritten manuscript signatures appear to the right, one below the printed caption 'El Alcalde,' and the second below 'El Cajero,'. |
| Reverse lettering | El Alcalde, El Cajero, (Translation: The Mayor, The Cashier,) |
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Villanueva de Alcardete is a small municipality in Toledo province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued fractional emergency notes in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's decree authorizing local authorities to produce these suplentes was widely interpreted, and the results varied enormously in quality — from professionally typeset cards to handwritten slips. Municipal issues from Toledo province tend toward the utilitarian end of that spectrum.
Survival rates for these local cartones are unpredictable; many were redeemed and pulped, others simply discarded once the war resolved their issuing authority out of existence.