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10 Céntimos Villahermosa

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Villahermosa
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Plain letterpress-printed note on coarse paper, with the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL in large bold type across the top, separated from VILLAHERMOSA by a double rule underline. The denomination Vale por 0'10 céntimos. is centered in the lower half, with the date Septiembre 1937 to the lower left and the cashier designation El Cajero to the lower right, accompanied by a manuscript signature. Small decorative dot clusters flank the issuer name on both sides.
Obverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILLAHERMOSA Vale por 0'10 céntimos. Septiembre 1937. El Cajero.
(Translation: Municipal Council Villahermosa Voucher for 0.10 Centimos September 1937. The Cashier.)
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Villahermosa is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile–La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage by 1937, forcing hundreds of local councils — ayuntamientos and consejos municipales alike — to print their own emergency paper or cardboard fractional notes. This is one of those issues: purely local, intended to substitute for the copper and bronze coins that had vanished from circulation through hoarding and wartime disruption.

The Gari Montllor catalogue remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War local emissions, and a listing there confirms genuine documentation rather than fantasy attribution.

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