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1 Peseta Villar de la Libertad
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villar de la Libertad |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Villar de la Libertad Vale 1 Peseta (Translation: Municipal Council Villar de la Libertad Value 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain cream card stock, bearing only a handwritten serial number in black ink positioned towards the lower centre, applied manually at the time of issue as the sole individualising element of this emergency voucher. |
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Villar de la Libertad is the wartime Republican rename of Villar del Arzobispo, a town in Valencia province whose council — like hundreds of others across the Republican zone — issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when small change collapsed almost entirely from circulation. The Consejo Municipal's notes were purely local instruments, legally valid only within the municipality and practically worthless the moment the front moved.
The Gari Montsó catalog remains the definitive reference for these Valencia-region emisiones locales, and the #1618 series covers Villar de la Libertad's small run. Survival rates for these card-stock municipals are erratic — some towns printed hundreds of thousands, others a few hundred, and post-war possession of Republican scrip was not without risk.