5 Céntimos Villa del Río

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.