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50 Céntimos Rocafort de Vallbona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rocafort de Vallbona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown on a yellow-ochre dot-pattern underprint, enclosed within a double rectangular frame with corner ornaments. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE ROCAFORT DE VALLBONA' is set in bold capitals at the top, with the denomination '0'50' in large numerals at the upper right; a row of decorative scalloped ornaments separates the header from the central text. The bearer clause and denomination '50 CENTIMS' appear in the centre field, with a handwritten serial number at lower left and the date 'MARÇ DEL 1937' at lower right; the printer's imprint 'IMP. A. FIGUERES · TÀRREGA' is printed at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper reverse, unprinted save for a centrally applied oval violet control stamp reading 'DISTRITO MUNICIPAL DE ROCAFORT DE VALLBONA' with additional text in the centre, applied as a validation mark. |
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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.