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50 Céntimos La Riba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Riba (Municipality of La Riba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Solé, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in violet ink on plain paper, with a decorative guilloche-style border of repeated foliate and geometric ornaments framing the entire field. The issuing authority appears in bold uppercase lettering at the top, with the bearer clause and denomination enclosed within a plain rectangular cartouche at centre. Date and validity clause are set in smaller type at the lower left and lower right corners respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA RIBA Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador 50 cèntims FEBRER DEL 1937. Validesa durant l'any 1937. (Translation: City Council of La Riba / This Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer / 50 Centimos / February 1937. / Validity during the year 1937.) |
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La Riba is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after Republican authorities failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The silver and copper shortage was acute by 1937, and local councils across Catalonia were effectively left to solve the problem themselves.
Imprenta Solé was a Tarragona commercial printer with no specialist banknote experience — which shows in the modest production quality typical of these municipal issues. Turró catalogued over two thousand such references from the period.