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10 Pesetas Soneja
| Issuer | Comité Ejecutivo Popular de Soneja (Municipality of Soneja, Province of Castellón) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of oval cardboard, presenting a uniform light tan surface without any legends, devices, or decorative elements. Some examples are known to bear a control stamp applied after issue, though many circulated examples are found without any such marking. |
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Soneja is a small agricultural municipality in the interior of Castellón with a population that barely reached 1,500 during the 1930s. Like dozens of similarly sized Republican-held towns, its local committee issued emergency cardboard currency in 1937 when the combination of wartime hoarding, Republican government requisitions of metal coinage, and the broader collapse of small-denomination circulation left ordinary commercial transactions nearly impossible. These local emissions were authorised under the improvised framework of the Popular Front committees, with no standardised printing requirements and no central oversight of design or quantity.
The absence of a Turró or Garrut reference number suggests this piece was either unrecorded at the time of cataloguing or surfaced too late for inclusion — not uncommon given how many small Valencian issues remain imperfectly documented.