25 Céntimos Villahermosa

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.