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50 Céntimos Villalgordo del Júcar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villalgordo del Júcar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on plain buff paper, with a large bold numeral '50' occupying the left half of the face. To the right, the issuer name is set in two lines separated by a short rule, with the denomination 'céntimos' in bold italic type at the lower right, underlined by a double rule. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLALGORDO DEL JÚCAR |
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Villalgordo del Júcar is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed fractional paper during the Civil War after the Republic's small coinage effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936. These emergency municipal issues — collectively known as papel moneda local — were authorized under a framework that gave town councils wide latitude to produce their own fractional currency, with little standardization and almost no oversight of print quality or security.
The sole security feature was an official municipal stamp, applied by hand. Forgery was largely a moot concern at this scale — the notes rarely traveled beyond the town that issued them.