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1 Peseta Plana de Riucorb

Issuer Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb
Year 1937
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Size 93 × 54 mm
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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 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)
Reverse description Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a hand-applied red oval municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb, serving as the sole authenticating device. A handwritten catalogue or control number appears in the upper right corner. No engraved or printed design is present beyond the stamp impression.
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Plana de Riucorb is a small municipality in the comarca of Urgell, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted. The Crònica Targarina press in Tàrrega served several local councils in the region, producing these notes as a commercial job rather than a specialist security print, which is exactly what the production quality reflects.

Turró catalogs this as #1861. Municipal issues from villages this small survive in genuinely limited numbers; most were redeemed and destroyed locally, and wartime disruption finished off much of the remainder.

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