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25 Céntimos Villaverde de Guadalimar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villaverde del Guadalimar |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress design in black ink on cream paper, with the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLAVERDE DEL GUADALIMAR set in bold capitals at the top, underlined by double rules. A two-line explanatory text in smaller type occupies the centre field, below which the denomination 25 céntts. is printed in large bold figures. The lower left corner repeats the value 25 Cénts. in smaller type, while a manuscript signature of the Alcalde (mayor) appears at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Circular blue ink municipal stamp applied to the reverse as a validation mark. |
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Villaverde de Guadalimar is a small municipality in the sierra of Albacete province, and like hundreds of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, its municipal council was forced to produce its own fractional emergency currency when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Nationalist advance and the Republican government's inability to guarantee small-change supply pushed this burden onto local bodies that had no printing infrastructure and often no banking relationship to speak of.
The official stamp is the sole security measure — the entire legitimacy of the note rested on that ink impression and local recognition. Outside the village, it was worthless.