40 Centimos Castellón

Soneja is a small municipality in the comarca of Alto Palancia, and like dozens of similarly sized Valencian towns in the summer of 1936, it faced an acute shortage of small change almost immediately after the military uprising fractured normal commerce. The Republican government's inability to guarantee coin supply to rural municipalities pushed local ayuntamientos to authorize their own emergency fractional currency — cardboard being the material of necessity, not choice.

These local Civil War issues were produced in tiny quantities for purely local circulation, often hand-stamped or printed with minimal equipment. Most were withdrawn and destroyed once central Republican currency resupplied the region.