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25 Centimos Barcelona; Granja Royal
| Issuer | Granja Royal, Barcelona |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned card stock printed in dark brown throughout, with a wide solid brown border frame. To the left, a circular vignette encloses a hand-drawn illustration of a young girl cradling a lamb, surrounded by a decorative ringed border bearing the issuer's name and address. To the right, large hand-lettered text reads "VAL de CANVI" and "25 CÈNTIMS", with a small wave-and-fish underprint device between the numeral and denomination. A hand-stamped serial number appears at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | GRANJA ROYAL Pelayo 58 BARCELONA VAL de CANVI 25 CÈNTIMS 1141 (Translation: Exchange voucher. 25 Centimos.) |
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Granja Royal was a café and dairy restaurant in Barcelona — one of hundreds of local businesses, cooperatives, and municipal bodies that issued their own small-denomination paper during the Civil War years when Republican-held Catalonia experienced an acute shortage of fractional coinage. The central government's inability to supply enough small change pushed the burden onto whoever had a printing press and local credibility.
These vales de necesidad circulated hyperlocally, often refused outside the immediate neighborhood of issue. AL#1239 is among the more obscure commercial emissions of the series — no surviving print run figures are known.