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5 Céntimos Villamayor de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamayor de Calatrava |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on buff card stock, the obverse is divided into two zones: the left side carries the large bold numeral '5' with the denomination legend 'céntimos' underlined below, while the upper left corner bears a rectangular block of fine horizontal ruling. The right side displays the issuing authority inscription arranged in three lines. A handwritten serial number appears in the centre field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain buff card stock without any typeset design. Two violet rubber-stamp impressions — one elongated diagonal strike and one partially legible oval control stamp — along with a handwritten authorisation signature in violet ink, appear as the sole validation marks on this otherwise unprinted surface. |
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Villamayor de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this 5 céntimos piece is a product of the fractional currency crisis that gripped Republican Spain from 1936 onward. When the Civil War disrupted coin supply and small change disappeared from circulation almost entirely, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many with populations under a few thousand — printed or stamped their own emergency cartones and vales. The Consejo Municipal designation places this squarely in that wartime administrative framework.
The incomplete Gari Mon reference signals how poorly documented the smaller Castilian emissions remain.