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15 Céntimos Valls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Valls |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 15 Centimos (0.15 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The central vignette presents a view of the Municipal Popular Library of Valls, inaugurated in 1918 as the first public library of its kind in Catalonia. Catalan-language letterpress text above and below the vignette states the denomination and the legal authority under which the note was issued. |
| Reverse lettering | 15 CÈNTIMS De circulació a Valls Emissió feta per acord de l'Ajuntament en la sessió de 29 de Setembre del 1937 (Translation: 15 Centimos Of circulation in Valls Issued by agreement of the City Council in the session of September 29, 1937) |
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Valls, a town in the Camp de Tarragona, issued its own fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War under the Republican zone's emergency monetary arrangements. The central government's inability to maintain adequate coinage supply — partly through hoarding, partly through wartime disruption — forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own low-denomination notes through 1936 and 1937. Turró catalogs over 3,000 such emissions; this 15 céntimos piece is among the smaller denominations Valls produced in that series.
The Ajuntament took legal authority to issue under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree of September 1936.