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25 Céntimos Villanueva de Castellón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villanueva de Castellón |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed entirely in blue ink by letterpress, enclosed within a single rectangular frame. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in two lines, followed by the value expressed in large bold numerals and abbreviated text centred across the field. The town name and year of issue are set in a smaller roman typeface along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock bearing a large violet oval municipal handstamp applied at centre, enclosing a coat-of-arms vignette and the legend of the Consejo Municipal de Villanueva de Castellón around the perimeter. A hand-written serial number is inscribed across the centre of the stamp, serving as the primary control and authentication device. |
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Villanueva de Castellón is a small agricultural municipality in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, its local council was forced to print its own fractional emergency currency when coin disappeared from circulation entirely. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply — exacerbated by hoarding, melting, and supply chain collapse — pushed this responsibility down to the municipal level, producing a chaotic proliferation of locally issued pieces with no standardization and wildly uneven printing quality.
The thick card stock was a practical necessity, not an aesthetic choice. Proper banknote paper was unavailable to most ayuntamientos by 1938.