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50 Céntimos Villargordo
| Issuer | Villargordo, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | Villargordo Vale por 50 céntimos contra depósito de igual cantidad en el Consejo Municipal de ésta. Este vale no será válido si está doblado (Translation: Villargordo Voucher for 50 Centimos against deposit of the same amount in the Municipal Council of this. This voucher will not be valid if it is folded) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream card stock bearing a single applied oval municipal rubber stamp in red ink, positioned at centre. The stamp impression, though partially legible due to uneven inking, carries circular text referencing Villargordo and what appears to be an interior design; it served as the authenticating validation of the note's official issue. |
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Villargordo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, it resorted to locally produced fractional emergency currency during the Civil War when coins vanished from circulation entirely. These municipal notes — vales, cartones, or simply moneda local — were typically produced in tiny runs, often on whatever card stock was available, with no standardized printing process and no oversight from Madrid.
The Gari Montañá reference confirms this as a catalogued type, but survival rates for Villargordo material are poor. Provincial Jaén saw heavy fighting and displacement between 1936 and 1939.