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10 Céntimos Vilches
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vilches (Municipality of Vilches) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, on the same tan card stock, bears a circular red ink municipal seal of the Consejo Municipal of Vilches (Jaén), with a coat-of-arms vignette at its centre, the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' arching across the upper arc and 'VILCHES (JAÉN)' along the lower arc. A manuscript authorisation signature in red ink is applied across the stamp, serving as the validating endorsement of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILCHES (JAÉN) |
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Vilches is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally-issued cardboard small change during the Civil War after the Republican government's peseta coinage vanished from circulation almost immediately following the July 1936 uprising. These municipal emergency issues — cartones, as they were generically known — were produced under desperate conditions, often on whatever printing or office equipment was available locally, with no standardized format or regulatory oversight.
The Gari catalogue reference is incomplete, which is unsurprising for a piece this obscure. Many Vilches issues remain poorly documented.