Catalog
2 Pesetas Riudaura
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Riudaura |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE RIUDAURA Reconeix al portador DOS PESSETES Núm. (Translation: City Council of Riudaura Recognizes the bearer Two Pesetas No.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged buff card stock, bearing only collector's pencil notations in the upper right corner. No printed design, text, or ornamental elements are present. |
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Riudaura is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's small-change shortage became acute after 1936. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the bitllets locals — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often by local printers with whatever stock was at hand, which accounts for the heavier card stock typical of Riudaura's issues.
Turró's catalogue remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipal notes, and low Turró numbers can carry serious collector premiums. At #2148, Riudaura falls deep into a series where survival rates are genuinely uneven — small-town issues were redeemed, lost, or simply discarded once the war ended.