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1 Peseta Plana de Riucorb
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in blue with a rectangular perimeter border composed of perpendicular line rules enclosing a dotted underprint. The issuing authority and payment obligation are set in blue letterpress text, with the denomination rendered in a contrasting light green typeface at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb LA DIPOSITARIA D`AQUEST AJUNTAMENT PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR UNA PESSETA PLANA DE RIUCORB, 1er DE FEBRER DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Plana de Riucorb The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer One Peseta Plana de Riucorb, February 1, 1937) |
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Plana de Riucorb is a small municipality in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish local bodies during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute. The central government in Valencia had lost practical control over small-denomination metal, and municipalities filled the gap themselves — legally dubious, locally essential.
Turró catalogues over two thousand such emissions. That this one survives at all is mildly remarkable given the issuing population and the note's obvious disposability once the war ended.