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25 Céntimos Villarta
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villarta |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress with a geometric dot-and-dash border framing the entire face. The issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLARTA (C.-Real)' appears at upper left, while a handstamped serial number box occupies the upper right. The denomination 'VALE POR 25 CENTIMOS' is set in bold display type at centre, with the redemption clause 'Canjeable en este Consejo Municipal' below. At the foot, the printed signatures of the President and the Depositario are given alongside their respective titles, and a circular violet official municipality stamp is applied over the centre of the note. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink official municipality stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Villarta applied to the face of the note. |
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Villarta is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the summer of 1936, its local council scrambled to produce emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed almost immediately following the military uprising. These municipal issues — often little more than stamped card — were locally designed, locally printed, and backed by nothing more formal than the authority of whoever held office that week. The Consejo Municipal's official stamp is the only security feature, which tells you exactly how improvised the situation was.
Gari's catalog documents over two thousand of these Spanish Civil War municipal emissions. That this one survives at all is partly luck — most were redeemed, rejected, or simply discarded once the war moved on.