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50 Céntimos Villargordo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villargordo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green letterpress on plain cream card stock, the face carries the issuer's name 'Villargordo' in large cursive lettering at the top, flanked by decorative scroll motifs, with double ruled lines separating it from the denomination legend 'Vale por 50 céntimos' in bold type. Below, the redemption clause in smaller italic script states the note is redeemable against an equivalent deposit at the Municipal Council, with the date '7 JUL. 1937' stamped in black at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left blank apart from a handwritten authorisation signature in black ink applied diagonally across the centre, accompanied by an oval official dry stamp of the issuing Municipal Council, partially legible. |
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Villargordo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage — silver had been hoarded or melted, and the central government could not supply small change fast enough. Hundreds of municipal councils, including tiny villages like Villargordo, responded by issuing their own emergency paper currency, often on whatever card stock was locally available, with authority derived from little more than a rubber stamp and a council resolution.
The near-minimal dimensions place this among the smallest emergency issues of the conflict.