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2 Eggs Rubí, Spain
| Issuer | Falange Española de Rubí |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 19 40 CUPON de racionamiento VALE POR DOS HUEVOS RUBÍ - BARCELONA FALANGE ESPAÑOLA ARRIBA ESPAÑA (Translation: Ration coupon Valid for two eggs Up with Spain) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a central black intaglio-style vignette of an arched fortification gateway surmounted by a tower and three flags, enclosed within a blue rectangular perimeter rule. |
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Issued by the local Falange organization in Rubí, a small textile town in the Vallès Occidental, this note belongs to the wave of municipally-issued emergency fractional currency that flooded Catalonia during and immediately after the Civil War. By 1940, the war was over — the fact that Rubí's Falange chapter was still issuing paper denominated in eggs rather than pesetas points to genuine scarcity of small coin and a local barter economy that had not yet normalized.
Denomination in kind — eggs specifically — was not uncommon in rural and semi-rural Catalan localities during this period, functioning as a ration voucher as much as a circulating medium.