Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Peseta Riudoms
| Issuer | Riudoms, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on plain paper ground, with a portrait vignette of composer and musician Jaume Vidiella i Guinjoan (1867–1917) positioned to the left. The central field is framed by straight and circular rule borders. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan, with the date of issue hand-printed below. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RIUDOMS UNA PESSETA Bitllet de circulació obligatòria en tot el terme Municipal (Translation: Municipal Council of Riudoms One Peseta Mandatory circulation banknote in all the Municipal term) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Riudoms is a small agricultural municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and this 1 Peseta note is one of dozens of hyper-local emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War after the 1936 decree authorizing municipalities to print their own fractional currency to address the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation. Imprenta De Ferrando in nearby Reus supplied several of these local councils, which is why the print quality across the Turró-catalogued Reus-area notes shares a recognizable consistency.
Survival rates for Riudoms issues are poor. The town's total population at the time was under two thousand, meaning the original print run was almost certainly small.