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0.50 Pesetas Rotglá-Corberá
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Rotglá-Corberá |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1276-B, TurróPV#1267 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream card stock, with a rectangular border of interlocking guilloche and rule lines enclosing all text. The issuer name and denomination voucher legend are set in bold sans-serif capitals, with a serial number prefixed by 'Nº' and a small asterisk ornament in the lower field. Two cancellation punch holes are visible at the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of cream card stock, entirely blank save for the two upper-corner cancellation punch holes visible through from the obverse. |
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Rotglá i Corbera is a small municipality in Valencia — population in the hundreds even today — and like hundreds of similarly minute Spanish localities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War when Republican-zone coins vanished almost entirely from circulation. The Consell Municipal printed these notes to cover the gap left by hoarded and melted coinage, not as any formal banking operation.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: small notes on thin paper disintegrated fast in daily use. Most of these hyper-local vales have survived only in collector hands, having been rendered worthless when the peseta was consolidated under Franco.