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1 Peseta La Riba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Riba |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in dark ink on cream paper, enclosed within a geometric double-rule border with arrow-and-triangle ornamental devices at the corners and mid-edges. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE LA RIBA' is set in large capitals across the top, beneath which a bearer clause in a smaller roman face frames the central denomination cartouche 'UNA Pesseta'. The issue date 'FEBRER DEL 1937' appears at the lower right, with the validity notice at the lower left, and a faint circular underprint is visible at the right centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA RIBA Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador UNA Pesseta FEBRER DEL 1937 Validesa durant l'any 1937. (Translation: City Council of La Riba / This Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer / One Peseta / February 1937 / Validity during the year 1937.) |
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La Riba is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republic's central supply of small coin collapsed under wartime pressure. These municipal notes — called "moneda local" or, more colloquially, "paper de guerra" — filled a genuine transactional void; metal coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped circulating by 1937.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled production for several small municipalities in the province, which means the printing quality here is relatively consistent, but the issuing authority's own authorization stamps and signatures introduce the real variation between surviving examples.