Catalog
2 Pesetas Riola
| Issuer | Municipality of Riola (Province of Valencia) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a large numeral '2' applied in violet-purple rubber stamp at the upper centre, and a single line of bold red letterpress text across the lower half reading 'Vale por dos Pesetas'. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or guilloche work, reflecting the improvised character of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Vale por dos Pesetas (Translation: Voucher for Two Pesetas) |
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Riola is a small municipality in the Ribera Baixa comarca, and like dozens of Valencian towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War — the result of a severe shortage of metallic coinage that left local commerce effectively paralyzed from 1936 onward. These municipal emissions were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
The Gari Montaner reference is incomplete for this piece, suggesting it either lacks a confirmed catalog number or was recorded without full documentation. Small-town Valencian emissions at the 2 pesetas denomination are among the more elusive of the guerra civil locals.