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25 Pesetas Villa del Río
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villa del Río |
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| Size | 121 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in blue ink, enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, with the issuing authority and denomination text arranged across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, with a plain cream-colored paper surface and a faint double-line border visible near the edges. |
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Villa del Río is a small municipality in Córdoba province, and this note is one of hundreds of local emergency scrip issues produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government authorized — and often simply tolerated — town committees printing their own currency to keep local economies functioning after the banking system effectively collapsed in Nationalist-held or contested zones. The Frente Popular committee issues are among the most irregular in the entire Civil War scrip corpus: no standardized oversight, no central print quality control, and enormous variation in paper stock and hand-stamping between otherwise identical denominations.
Gari's cataloguing of these Andalusian municipal issues remains the primary reference, and the 1591-E suffix suggests a distinct sub-variety within the Villa del Río series — likely a signature, stamp, or paper variant from the base type.