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5 Céntimos Villanueva de Castellón
| Issuer | Villanueva de Castellón, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Violet oval municipal control stamp applied to the reverse, incorporating the serial number as a validation device. |
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One of several hundred municipal emergency emissions that flooded the Republican zone after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national coin supply. The Banco de España's peseta coinage — particularly the copper-nickel and silver fractions used for everyday transactions — disappeared almost immediately through hoarding, melting, and disrupted minting, leaving municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional substitutes.
Villanueva de Castellón, a small agricultural town in Valencia province, produced this card-stock piece as functional small change. The official stamp was the issuing authority's primary anti-counterfeiting measure — rudimentary by any standard, but adequate for purely local circulation.