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10 Céntimos Villamarchante
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamarchante |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 63 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 céntimos Consejo Municipal DE VILLAMARCHANTE (Translation: 10 Centimos / Municipal Council / of / Villamarchante) |
| Reverse description | Plain grey-blue card stock with a single hand-applied oval validation stamp in violet ink at centre, bearing the text 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - DE - VILLAMARCHANTE' around the interior perimeter, with a small six-pointed star at each lateral axis. |
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Villamarchante is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These local emissions, collectively known as billetes de necesidad, were produced under no central authority and with whatever materials the council had on hand. Thick card stock and a rubber stamp were often the entire production apparatus.
The Gari catalogue documents thousands of such issues; this one is among the more obscure. Survival rates for Valencian municipal notes of this period vary wildly by town.