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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Rafelbuñol |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on plain paper stock, the obverse is framed by a scalloped outer border and an inner rectangular rule. The upper half carries the issuing authority inscription in two lines, flanked by small decorative arrow motifs, above a subdivided panel containing a row of squared geometric ornaments to the right and the countersigning authority text to its left. The denomination "25 Cnts." is set in bold letterpress type on the left side, with the voucher legend "Vale por" above it, while a serial number appears vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal RAFELBUÑOL VALE por 25 Cnts. La Comisión de Economía (Translation: Municipal Council Rafelbuñol Voucher for 25 Centimos. The Economics Commission) |
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Rafelbuñol is a small municipality in the Valencian Community, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Republic's central supply of small coinage collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. These local vales were a purely practical response — Burgos-aligned forces had disrupted normal commerce, and without centimos in circulation, market transactions simply stalled.
Tip. H. Zamit operated out of Eliana, itself a village of comparable size nearby. The Turró and Gari references catalog this as a single known type, suggesting limited print runs with little variation documented to date.