10 Centimos Abrera; Carniceria de Vicenç Ribas

One of thousands of emergency small-change notes — locally called moneda de paper or vals — issued by Catalan municipalities, cooperatives, and individual businesses during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply fractional currency to the provinces forced the hand of shopkeepers, butchers, and barbers alike. Vicenç Ribas ran a carniceria, a butcher's shop, in Abrera — a small town on the Llobregat river southwest of Barcelona — and issued these notes redeemable against his own trade.

Legally speaking, private commercial emission of this kind was tolerated rather than sanctioned, and many such notes became worthless when the issuing business closed or the war ended.