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25 Céntimos Villajoyosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villajoyosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1600-A |
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| Obverse lettering | = 25 = cèntimos. EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de VILLAJOYOSA pagará al portador veinticinco céntimos de peseta. Villajoyosa 24 Mayo 1937. (Translation: 25 Centimos The Municipal Council of Villajoyosa Will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos of Peseta. Villajoyosa May 24, 1937.) El Consejero General / El Consejero de Economia. Juan Florca |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de VILLAJOYOSA 25 Cèntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Villajoyosa 25 Centimos) |
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Villajoyosa — a small coastal town in Alicante province — was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that printed their own emergency scrip during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. Copper and silver were being hoarded or melted, and the central government could not supply small change fast enough to keep local commerce moving. Municipal councils stepped in with whatever printing resources they had.
The Gari Mon reference places this among the better-documented provincial emissions, though survival rates for these local issues vary sharply depending on how long the issuing municipality remained under Republican control.