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1 Peseta Plana de Riucorb
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb (Municipality of Plana de Riucorb) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with blue text and a decorative perimeter border composed of a repeating rhombus pattern, over a light green underprint with a dotted background. The central text block carries the municipal authority's name and promise-to-pay legend in Catalan. The date of issue, February 1, 1937, is set at the foot of the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb La Dipositaria d'aquest Ajuntament, pagarà al portador UNA Pesseta Plana de Riucorb, 1.er 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, Catalunya, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the withdrawal of small-denomination coins from circulation gutted everyday commerce. The Republican government's inability to supply sufficient coinage to the interior forced town councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, producing what collectors now call "moneda local" or "guerra civil municipal" issues.
Printed by Antoni Figueres in the nearby town of Tàrrega, who handled similar commissions for multiple surrounding municipalities during the same period. Turró catalogues this as a single-denomination issue from a community small enough that surviving examples are genuinely scarce.