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25 Céntimos Villamanrique
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamanrique |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILLAMANRIQUE Vale por 25 céntimos Agosto 1937. No [serial number] (Translation: Municipal Council / Villamanrique / Valid for 25 centimos / August 1937. No [serial number]) |
| Reverse description | Plain off-white card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a partially legible circular violet ink control stamp applied off-centre and appearing in mirror image, reading around the arc the words associated with the municipal council; no other design elements or lettering are present. |
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Villamanrique — a small municipality in Seville province — issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War when the Republic's central government could not maintain an adequate supply of small change. These hyper-local emissions, collectively catalogued under the *billetes de necesidad* phenomenon, were produced by hundreds of Andalusian town councils in 1936–37, typically without formal authorization from Madrid and often printed on whatever card stock was locally available. The thick substrate here is characteristic of councils working with commercial stationers rather than any proper printing house.
Gari Mon #1605-A is among the scarcer Sevillian municipal issues simply because Villamanrique's wartime population was small and surviving quantities reflect that.