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1 Peseta Villardompardo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villardompardo |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress. The upper portion carries the issuing authority inscription in two lines, with the municipality name in bold block capitals and the provincial designation in parentheses below. A circular red municipal validation stamp is applied over the centre of the text. The face value inscription 'Vale 1'00 Peseta' is set in large bold type in the lower portion, framed above and below by horizontal dotted border lines. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream paper reverse bearing a single circular red ink municipal stamp applied centrally. The stamp consists of two concentric rings enclosing a central heraldic vignette, with legible text running along the outer ring reading 'ALCALDIA CONSTITUCIONAL DE VILLARDOMPARDO'. |
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Villardompardo is a village in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, with a population that has never exceeded a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree of June 1937 authorized municipal councils to issue small-denomination emergency paper money — moneda local — to address an acute shortage of coin in circulation. Thousands of Spanish municipalities did exactly this, producing notes of wildly varying quality and official rigor.
The Consejo Municipal de Villardompardo's 1 Peseta issue is among the more modest surviving examples of this phenomenon. The official stamp is the primary security feature — common practice for these local emissions, where printing resources were scarce and legitimacy rested on bureaucratic endorsement rather than engraving sophistication.