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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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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typographic letterpress composition printed in blue on a light green dotted underprint, enclosed within a rectangular border of vertical rule lines. The central text block presents the municipal authority's declaration in Catalan, including the denomination UNA PESSETA and the date 1 de Febrer del 1937, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche ornamentation. The layout reflects the austere emergency issue character typical of Catalan Civil War-era municipal notes. |
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| 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.