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| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villa del Río |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular VILLA DEL RIO Vale 25 cts. (Translation: Popular Front Committee Villa del Rio Value 25 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] |
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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.