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25 Céntimos Villagarcía del Llano
| Issuer | Villagarcía del Llano, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 98 × 59 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in brown on plain paper, the obverse presents an allegorical vignette of a seated female figure holding a torch in one hand and resting against the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, with a cornucopia at her feet. A decorative perimeter border composed of floral and fruit motifs frames the entire composition. Surrounding inscriptions identify the issuing Municipal Council of Villagarcía del Llano, the denomination, the emission date of September 1937, and the exclusively local legal-tender status of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CTS (Translation: 25 Centimos) |
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Villagarcía del Llano is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castile-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by wartime disruption. These local cartones and papeletas were authorised under Republican decree but produced entirely at municipal level, which means printing quality, paper stock, and design vary wildly from one town to the next.
The Gari Monerris catalogue remains the primary reference for these Valencian regional emissions.