25 Céntimos Riudecols

Riudecols is a small village in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed after 1936. These local issues — called "moneda de paper" or "vals" depending on the municipality — were typically authorized by the local revolutionary committee or ajuntament and had no validity outside the issuing town. The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this chaotic class of material.

At 25 céntimos, this was purely a transactional token for daily commerce, the kind of note a shopkeeper handed back as change for bread.