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1 Peseta Villahermosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villahermosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper entirely in black letterpress typography. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears in large bold capitals across the top, separated by a double rule from 'VILLAHERMOSA' in the same weight, flanked by small ornamental dot rosettes. Below a second double rule, the denomination statement 'Vale por UNA peseta.' is set in mixed type with 'UNA' in heavy bold. The date 'Septiembre 1937.' appears at lower left alongside the cashier designation 'El Cajero,' at lower right, beneath which a handwritten signature is applied. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in keeping with the utilitarian nature of this Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issue, produced by the Municipality of Villahermosa, Province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha, to alleviate the acute shortage of small-denomination fiduciary currency during the conflict. |
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Villahermosa is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Consejo Municipal series from this period was a localized stopgap — not backed by any central authority, valid only within the issuing town, and legally dubious even at the time of issue.
Gari Montllor's cataloguing of these local emissions remains the authoritative reference, and the 1599-D designation suggests variant documentation within the Villahermosa series — likely a die or serial variation rather than a distinct issue date.