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50 Céntimos Rocafort de Vallbona

Issuer Ajuntament de Rocafort de Vallbona
Year 1937
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Value 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP)
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Protection type Official stamp
Protection description Oval violet hand-stamp applied to the reverse, reading 'DISTRITO MUNICIPAL DE ROCAFORT DE VALLBONA', serving as a municipal validation seal.
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Rocafort de Vallbona is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency emissions, which is why these tiny municipal notes proliferated across the region with such variety — each ajuntament effectively became its own issuing authority by necessity.

Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega handled several of these local commissions, the official stamp serving as the primary authentication measure against what was, functionally, a honor-system currency.

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