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25 Céntimos Vallfogona de Riucorb
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vallfogona de Riucorb |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VALLFOGONA DE RIUCORP La Dipositaria d`aquest Consell, pagarà al portador 25 Cèntims JULIOL, DEL 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Vallfogona de Riucorp The Depositary of this Council, will pay the bearer 25 Centimos July, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse left blank, with faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression visible on the plain white paper stock. |
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Vallfogona de Riucorb is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly minor towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change pushed this responsibility down to the municipal level, producing what Spanish collectors call "moneda local" or "paper de guerra."
Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega handled a significant number of these local issues across the Urgell and Conca de Barberà regions, which lends this note a degree of typographical consistency with neighboring issues — useful for authentication purposes.