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2 Pesetas Riudecanyes
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Riudecanyes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher in brown ink on a light green dotted underprint, with a double-line geometric border in two colours enclosing the central face value. The denomination is set within a ruled rectangular cartouche, with all text rendered in brown lettering on the pale green ground. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 Ptes. 1937 El Consell Municipal de Riudecanyes, farà efectiu l`import d`aquests VALS a la presentació dels mateixos per valor equivalent al dels Bitllets de curs legal a Catalunya. (Translation: 2 Pesetas The Municipal Council of Riudecanyes will make the amount of these Vouchers effective upon presentation of the same for a value equivalent to that of the legal tender banknotes in Catalonia.) |
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Riudecanyes is a small village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s — which makes the existence of a formal municipal paper issue all the more striking. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation pushed hundreds of Catalan municipalities, however minor, to authorize their own emergency notes under the 1937 Generalitat decree. Riudecanyes was one of the smallest communities to do so.
Imprenta Sanjuan of Reus produced notes for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, giving the Camp de Tarragona issues a recognizable regional consistency in print quality despite their varying local designs.