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1 Peseta Ribarroja d'Ebre
| Issuer | Riba-roja d'Ebre, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-lilac letterpress printing with perimeter framing enclosing a central allegorical war vignette in which a woman and child cradle a lifeless figure, a rifle at their side, while a Francoist aircraft bombs a town in the background. The local coat of arms appears at the upper right. Inscriptions give the issuing authority, municipality name, and face value. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes printed during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left towns across Catalonia and the Levant effectively unable to conduct daily commerce. Riba-roja d'Ebre, a small municipality on the Ebro in Tarragona, turned to the local press at Mora d'Ebre — barely fifteen kilometres away — rather than wait for Republican authorities to supply change. Gràfiques Launes handled several such commissions in the comarca during this period.
Turró catalogues these as Turró#2101, part of a body of wartime local paper that remains incompletely documented in terms of surviving quantities.