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5 Céntimos Villa del Río
| Issuer | Villa del Río, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del F Popular 5 cts. Villa del Río (Translation: Popular Front Committee 5 Centimos Villa del Rio) |
| Reverse description | Blank plain paper reverse, unprinted, showing natural off-white stock with minor toning consistent with the period. |
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Villa del Río is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War period, it resorted to issuing its own fractional emergency currency — céntimos and pesetas in cardboard or thick paper — when coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. These local issues were never formally catalogued with consistent numbering by Gari, leaving many pieces in a grey zone of attribution.
Survival rates for these municipal cartones are wildly uneven. Small-town issues from rural Andalusia saw rough handling and were often voided and discarded once Republican monetary authority reasserted itself locally.