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25 Céntimos Villahermosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villahermosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILLAHERMOSA Vale por 0`25 céntimos. Septiembre 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Villahermosa Voucher for 0.25 Centimos September, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is plain, unprinted paper with no design elements, text, or ornamental features, consistent with the simple emergency wartime production method used for Spanish Civil War local currency vouchers. |
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Villahermosa is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage almost immediately after July 1936 — silver had been hoarded, and the Madrid government was slow to provide emergency substitutes. Hundreds of municipal councils, market traders, and local committees filled the gap themselves, printing small-denomination cardboard and paper vouchers that functioned as local scrip.
This 25 céntimos issue is one of those municipal stopgaps. The Gari Montllor catalogue documents thousands of such pieces; the -B suffix here indicates a variant within the type, likely a color or typography difference from an -A issue.