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10 Céntimos Villaralto
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villaralto |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-orange card stock with all text in dark brown letterpress. The issuing authority is printed in two lines at the top reading 'Consejo Municipal de VILLARAITO (Córdoba)', with the denomination '10 Céntts.' set in large bold type at the lower portion. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or decorative border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de VILLARALTO (Córdoba) 10 Céntts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Villaralto (Córdoba) 10 Centimos) |
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Villaralto is a small municipality in the Sierra Morena foothills of Córdoba province, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936–37. These municipal issues — collectively termed "billetes de necesidad" — were authorised under a degree of improvisation that makes systematic cataloguing genuinely difficult; many were produced in tiny print runs by local printers with no philatelic ambition whatsoever.
The Gari Monovar reference places this among the better-documented Andalusian municipals, though surviving examples remain scarce simply because the notes were used hard in daily commerce and few were preserved.