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25 Céntimos Rocafort de Vallbona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rocafort de Vallbona |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE Rocafort de Vallbona La Dipositaria d'aquest Ajuntament pagarà al portador 25 CENTIMS OCTUBRE DEL 1937. Nº 0529 (Translation: City Council of Rocafort de Vallbona. The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer 25 Centimos. October 1937.) MP. LLLIB. A. FIGUERES · TÀRREGA |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, leaving the plain cream paper stock exposed with no typeset text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Rocafort de Vallbona is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued small-denomination paper to address the acute shortage of metallic coin that followed the Republican monetary disruption of 1936–37. These locally issued fractional notes — collectively known as "moneda de necessitat" or emergency currency — were technically illegal under Republican financial regulations but tolerated out of practical necessity.
Printed by Antoni Figueres in Tàrrega, who handled similar emergency issues for several surrounding municipalities, making him a de facto regional supplier of wartime scrip.