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1 Peseta Villargordo
| Issuer | Villargordo, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream card stock, with the issuing locality name 'Villargordo' in bold serif letters at top, flanked by decorative scrollwork and underlined by a double rule. The denomination 'UNA peseta' is set in large display type at centre, with the phrase 'Vale por' to its left and 'peseta' to its right, all underlined. Below, the redemption and validity conditions are set in smaller roman type across three lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | Villargordo Vale por UNA peseta contra depósito de igual cantidad en el Consejo Municipal de ésta. No será válido este vale si está doblado (Translation: Villargordo Voucher for One Peseta against deposit of the same amount in the Municipal Council of this. This voucher will not be valid if it is folded) |
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Villargordo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. These municipal notes — often little more than stamped card — were produced without central authorization, which is why the bibliographic record for most issues is fragmentary and catalog numbers frequently represent the compiler's best guess at sequence.
Thick card stock was the practical choice when proper banknote paper was unavailable and the issuing authority was a village council with no printing infrastructure.