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50 Céntimos Villa del Río
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villa del Río |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular VILLA DEL RIO Vale 50 cts. (Translation: Popular Front Committee Villa del Rio Value 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | Nº [serial number] |
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Villa del Río is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of Spanish towns in the summer of 1936, its Frente Popular committee issued emergency fractional currency when the Nationalist uprising severed normal commerce and drained coins from circulation. These hyper-local emissions were typically authorised by the town's Popular Front committee acting without any central banking mandate — a stopgap backed by nothing more formal than local revolutionary authority.
La Puritana, the Andújar print shop of M. Blanco, handled several such commissions from surrounding Jaén and Córdoba municipalities during this period. The thick card stock was a practical choice given the note's tiny dimensions and the need for something durable enough to survive hand-to-hand use in a wartime economy.