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25 Céntimos La Riba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Riba |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2100 |
| Obverse description | Yellow geometric underprint with blue letterpress text and a decorative floral border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of La Riba is positioned at the upper left. The central text block contains the payment obligation and legal tender declaration in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a photographic-style panoramic vignette of the town of La Riba, rendered in a tonal print reproducing the characteristic limestone gorge setting and village structures. No lettering or border ornamentation accompanies the image. |
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La Riba is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-change supply became acute in 1936–37. These municipally issued notes — collectively known as "paper moneda" or "bitllets locals" — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's permissive wartime framework, which gave local councils considerable latitude to print what they needed.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled a notable volume of these small-town issues across the province, which accounts for the family resemblance many of them share in typeface and layout. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for the full scope of Catalan local issues; his numbering places this note among several thousand documented types from the period.