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25 Céntimos Viso del Marqués
| Issuer | Viso del Marqués, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | JULIO 1937 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VISO DEL MARQUÉS 25 Céntimos EL PRESIDENTE: EL INTERVENTOR: DEL DEPOSITARIO: (Translation: July 1937 Municipal Council Viso del Marqués 25 Céntimos The President: The Interventor: The Depositary:) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse carries a geometric guilloche border framing a central vignette with a female allegorical laureate portrait representing the Spanish Republic alongside a view of the Palace of the Marquis of Santa Cruz. The denomination and validating text are set in letterpress within the framed field. |
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Viso del Marqués is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. Hoarding of copper and silver had created a near-total breakdown in small-change availability, forcing local ayuntamientos to print their own solutions — legally dubious, practically necessary.
The Gari Mon reference places this among the more systematically catalogued provincial emissions, but survival rates for these municipally printed notes vary enormously. Many were produced on whatever paper stock was locally available, and condition issues tied to poor-quality wartime paper are common across the type.