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2 Pesetas Riudecols
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Riudecols |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on pale blue card stock. The Catalan four-bar coat of arms, rendered within an ornate rectangular vignette, is centered at the top. Below, the issuer's name is set in elegant serif type, separated from the denomination statement by a decorative rule with a central scroll motif. |
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| Protection type | Municipal stamp |
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Riudecols is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never reaching rural communities. The Consell Municipal stepped in as the de facto monetary authority for purely local exchange, a function it had no peacetime mandate to perform.
The municipal rubber stamp served as the only security feature, which made counterfeiting trivially easy in principle, though the hyper-local nature of these issues — worthless outside the issuing town — made forgery economically pointless. Turró catalogs over two thousand such issues from this period.