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1 Peseta Vallfogona de Riucorb
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vallfogona de Riucorb |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VALLFOGONA DE RIUCORP La Dipositaria d`aquest Consell, pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA JULIOL, DEL 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Vallfogona de Riucorp The Depositary of this Council, will pay the bearer One Peseta July, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with show-through of the obverse letterpress text visible in mirror image; a handwritten or stamped serial number appears near the lower right corner. No printed design or additional text is present. |
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Vallfogona de Riucorb is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small coin supply collapsed almost entirely in 1936–37. The Consell Municipal — the local revolutionary council — was the issuing authority by necessity rather than by any monetary ambition.
Printed by Imprenta A. Figueres in nearby Tàrrega, this note is one of several small-town issues from that press serving the interior of Catalonia. Turró catalogues it as #2666, placing it among thousands of similar locally authorized pieces, most of which had very short circulation lives before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.