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30 Céntimos Vallclara
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallclara |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Plain letterpress reverse printed in light green ink, with a stippled dot background forming a simple underprint. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan in a compact typographic arrangement. The design is minimal, consistent with the austere production standards of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency currency. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VALLCLARA 30 CÈNTIMS (Translation: City Council of Vallclara 30 Centimos) |
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Vallclara is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded two hundred during the 1930s. That a settlement of this size issued its own fractional paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — the Republic's chronic shortage of small coinage after 1936 forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities, many far smaller than Vallclara, to print their own emergency issues. The Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc handled a substantial number of these local commissions and supplied several surrounding villages in the same comarca.
Turró catalogues this as #2655, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal issues, though surviving examples are thin on the ground given the note's purely local circulation radius.