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25 Céntimos Roquetes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Roquetes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL 25 CENTIMOS / VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS ROQUETAS (Translation: Municipal Council 25 Centimos / Twenty-five Centimos Roquetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain buff card stock bearing a single oval municipal stamp applied in black ink at left, enclosing an heraldic coat of arms with the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' around the perimeter. A handwritten serial number appears to the right of the stamp, followed by an asterisk mark. |
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Roquetes is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional emergency currency when the Republic's small-change shortage became untenable. By 1937 the hoarding of metal coins was near-total — workers couldn't make basic transactions, and Madrid and Barcelona had no practical mechanism to supply remote municipalities with adequate fiduciary coin.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale of issue: thinner paper disintegrated quickly in daily use, and these notes were meant to function as coins.