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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villa de Don Fadrique |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a violet rubber handstamp reading "REVISADO / EL [cargo] / 25 MAYO 1937", applied as a validation or audit endorsement; no printed design or vignette is present. |
| Reverse lettering | REVISADO EL [cargo] 25 MAYO 1937 (Translation: Reviewed by [the official] 25 May 1937) |
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Villa de Don Fadrique is a small municipality in Toledo province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metallic small change. Republican-zone hoarding and coin melting had emptied circulation by mid-1936. These local emergency issues — known collectively as billetes de necesidad — were authorized informally and printed with whatever resources a town could find, which for a village of this size typically meant a local press running simple typography.
The Gari Moneo catalogue remains the primary reference for these municipal Spanish issues. This note is scarce simply because very few were ever printed.