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15 Céntimos La Ràpita dels Alfacs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de La Ràpita dels Alfacs |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 15 CTS. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA RÀPITA DELS ALFACS Val de quinze cèntims emès per aquest Consell i reemborsable a la seva Caixa. La Ràpita dels Alfacs, maig del 1937 (Translation: 15 Centimos Municipal Council of La Ràpita dels Alfacs Voucher of Fifteen Centimos issued by this Council and refundable at its Caixa. La Ràpita dels Alfacs, May 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in light brown and enclosed within a simple geometric border of straight and circular lines. The municipal coat of arms, centred on the note, displays a tower motif emblematic of the locality. The abbreviated face value and voucher text appear in plain letterpress above and below the arms. |
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La Ràpita dels Alfacs — the small fishing and salt-trade port at the mouth of the Ebro delta — issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War under the same Republican decree that licensed hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own small-denomination notes to address the catastrophic shortage of coin. Turró catalogs thousands of these wartime locals, but the Ràpita series is among the less commonly encountered, reflecting both the town's modest population and the inevitable attrition of cheap paper through two years of war.
Imprenta Avant, the Barcelona printer, handled a significant volume of such municipal work during 1936–37.