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25 Céntimos Rojales
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Rojales (Municipality of Rojales) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher in red ink on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border composed of repeating triangular and diamond motifs. The central text states the denomination and issuing authority, with a hand-stamped serial number in black at upper centre and signature lines for El Alcalde and El Tesorero below. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note outside the inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE por 25 céntimos a responder de cantidad depositada en esta Alcaldía. Rojales, Febrero 1937. El Alcalde, El Tesorero, Imp. alonso-almoradí Control U.G.T. (Translation: Voucher for 25 Céntimos to respond to the amount deposited in this Mayoralty. Rojales, February 1937. / The Mayor, / The Treasurer, / Printer: Alonso-Almoradí, U.G.T. Control) |
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One of thousands of emergency fractional notes issued by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. The national government had neither the capacity nor the coordination to supply local change, so individual town councils printed their own — legally dubious, practically unavoidable.
The printer's imprint "Control U.G.T." identifies oversight by the Unión General de Trabajadores, the socialist trade union that exercised considerable authority over commercial enterprises in Republican-held territory by 1937. Rojales is a small agricultural settlement in the Vega Baja del Segura; that a village of this size was issuing its own currency speaks to how thoroughly the monetary infrastructure had fractured.