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50 Céntimos Villamarchante
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamarchante |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock bearing a large oval official stamp applied in violet ink at centre, reading "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VILLAMARCHANTE" with four-pointed star ornaments at the cardinal points. The remainder of the reverse is unprinted. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Villamarchante is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely. Bronze and copper had been hoarded or melted, and the Nationalist blockade of supply lines made reissuance impossible. Local councils stepped in with whatever printing resources they had — in many cases a local press, a rubber stamp, and card stock from the nearest stationery shop.
The Turró and Gari catalogues document this piece within a well-studied but vast category; Villamarchante's emissions are scarce simply because so few were printed for a small population.