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25 Céntimos Villaralto
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villaralto |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue-grey card stock with all text in black letterpress. The issuing authority name 'Consejo Municipal de VILLARALTO (Córdoba)' is set in graduated type across the upper and central fields, with the denomination '25 Cénts.' in large bold type at the foot. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental elements. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - VILLARALTO - (Córdoba) |
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Villaralto is a small municipality in the Sierra Morena foothills of Córdoba province. This 25 céntimos piece belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency fractional currency that flooded Republican-controlled Spain from mid-1936 onward, when the hoarding of coins — silver and copper alike — created a crippling shortage of small change almost immediately after the Civil War began. Hundreds of town councils, worker collectives, and local committees printed their own solutions, with wildly inconsistent quality and backing.
The thick card stock construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and improvised with whatever the local printer had on hand.