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25 Céntimos La Riba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Riba (Municipality of La Riba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA RIBA Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador 25 cèntims FEBRER DEL 1937. Validesa durant l'any 1937. (Translation: City Council of La Riba This Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer 25 Centimos February 1937. Validity during the year 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in orange on cream paper, the reverse is enclosed by a double-line rectangular border. The four-bar coat of arms of Catalonia (the Senyera) is printed in orange at centre, serving as the sole design element on an otherwise plain field. |
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La Riba is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during 1936–37, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Civil War disrupted the supply of Republican small change. These municipal notes — known collectively as paper moneda local — were authorized under a framework that gave individual ayuntamientos broad latitude to print what they needed, which is why the Imprenta Solé in Tarragona ended up producing issues for multiple small towns across the province.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for this material, and the 2097 assignment places this squarely among the mid-war Tarragona provincial emissions.