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1 Peseta Villa del Río
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villa del Río |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Printer | La Puritana, M. Blanco, Andújar |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular VILLA DEL RIO Vale 1 Peseta "LA PURITANA" - M. BLANCO - ANDUJAR (Translation: Popular Front Committee / Villa del Rio / Value 1 Peseta / "La Puritana" - M. Blanco - Andújar) |
| Reverse description | Plain pale pink card stock with a single black typeset serial number in bold, centred in the upper-middle area of the otherwise unprinted surface. A handwritten notation appears in pencil in the upper right corner. |
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Villa del Río is a small municipality in Córdoba province, and this note is a product of the fractured monetary reality of Republican-held Andalusia in the summer of 1936. With the Nationalist uprising severing normal coin supply chains almost immediately, hundreds of local Popular Front committees across Spain issued their own emergency cardboard currency — these small-denomination vales were the only change circulating in markets and shops. The Comité del Frente Popular had both the political authority and the urgent practical need.
Printed by La Puritana in nearby Andújar, the production quality is unsurprisingly modest. At roughly the size of a large postage stamp, these local emissions were often discarded or destroyed once the crisis passed — or when Nationalist forces arrived.