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0.50 Pesetas Riudarenes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Riudarenes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on an ocher stippled underprint, the obverse is framed by a double-rule border. The Catalan Arms appear in colour in the upper left corner, serving as the principal vignette. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are set in letterpress throughout the design field. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE RIUDARENES PTES. 0`50 FIANÇA MUNICIPAL SEGONS ACORD DEL DIA 5 DE SETEMBRE DEL 1937 50 Cs. (Translation: City Council of Riudarenes Pesetas 0.50 Municipal bond according to the agreement of September 5, 1937 50 Centimos) |
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Riudarenes is a small municipality in the comarca of La Selva, Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War it issued its own fractional currency after the withdrawal of Republican coinage created a severe shortage of small change. These local emergency notes — known collectively as moneda local or paper moneda — were authorized under a 1937 Republican decree that formalized what municipalities had already been doing improvised for months.
Imprenta Casa Franquet was a commercial print shop in Girona responsible for a significant number of these Catalan municipal issues, which is why neighboring towns sometimes share typographic quirks across their respective series.