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1 Peseta Villafranca de los Caballeros
| Issuer | Villafranca de los Caballeros, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green note bearing a central allegorical vignette of a seated crowned female figure, personifying the Spanish Republic, holding a caduceus in one hand and a money bag in the other. Surrounding text carries the issuing authority and denomination in letterpress. The overall design is executed in a single green tone typical of Spanish Civil War local emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLAFRANCA DE LOS CABALLEROS PAPEL MONEDA DE VALOR LOCAL (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Villafranca de los Caballeros Local value paper money) |
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Villafranca de los Caballeros is a small agricultural municipality in the Toledo province of Castilla-La Mancha. This note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency — locally issued fractional notes produced by hundreds of towns between 1936 and 1939 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation, hoarded by a population that trusted silver over paper and republic alike.
The Gari Morera catalog number places it firmly within the documented Toledo regional issues, but municipal notes of this type were printed in tiny runs with whatever resources were locally available, and survival rates are erratic.