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25 Céntimos Villa del Río
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villa del Río |
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| Printer | La Puritana, M. Blanco, Andújar |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress typography on plain paper stock within a single-rule rectangular border with dotted corner ornaments. The issuing authority name appears at top in bold capitals, with the place name centered below separated by a dash, and the denomination in large bold numerals at lower left. A handstamp device appears at lower right, and the printer's imprint reads 'La Puritana - M. Blanco - Andújar' along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a single black typeset serial number preceded by the abbreviation 'No' printed in the center of an otherwise blank field. |
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Villa del Río is a small municipality in Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its Frente Popular committee issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin simply vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The printer, La Puritana of Andújar, was a local commercial press — the kind that normally handled stationery and receipts — pressed into producing emergency money for several surrounding municipalities.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a vast and still-incomplete taxonomy of Spanish Civil War local issues, many of which survive in tiny quantities simply because the towns that issued them were small.