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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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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE ROCAFORT DE VALLBONA 0'50 La Dipositaria d'aquest Ajuntament pagarà al portador 50 CENTIMS Nº MARÇ DEL 1937 IMP. A. FIGUERES · TÀRREGA (Translation: City Council of Rocafort de Vallbona 0.50 The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer 50 Centimos No. March 1937 Printed by A. Figueres, Tàrrega) |
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| Reverse lettering | DISTRITO MUNICIPAL DE ROCAFORT DE VALLBONA |
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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.