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1 Peseta Valls; Joan Sanroma - Vins i Licors
| Issuer | Joan Sanroma - Vins i Licors (Valls) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain orange card stock printed in black letterpress with the merchant's name and trade in four lines of bold serif type. A short rule separates the business description from the place name, with the denomination numeral and abbreviation in large type at the lower left. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental border. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOAN SANROMA VINS I LICORS VALLS 1 p. (Translation: Wines and liqueurs. 1 Peseta.) |
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Emergency local currency issued during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation forced municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives across Catalonia to print their own fractional notes. Joan Sanromà operated a wine and spirits business in Valls, a town in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province — merchant-issued vales of this type were a practical stopgap, redeemable at the issuing establishment and accepted informally in the immediate locality.
The Altach reference AL#2500 places this within the documented corpus of Catalan Civil War emergency issues, though survival rates for merchant-issued pieces from small commercial operations are typically lower than for municipally-backed equivalents.