25 Centimos Barcelona; Granja Royal

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.