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50 Céntimos La Riera de Gaià
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Riera de Gaià |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de La Riera de Gaià Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador la quantitat de 50 CÉNTIMS La Riera de Gaià el 28 de Gener del 1937 (Translation: City Council of La Riera de Gaià This Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos La Riera de Gaià, January 28, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a double-line rectangular border enclosing the coat of arms of Catalonia centred in the upper field. The series designation and validity clause are printed below in plain letterpress type. |
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La Riera de Gaià is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of emergency local currency — moneda local or paper de guerra — issued across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage in circulation by 1936–37 forced hundreds of municipal councils, many of them tiny, to print their own fractional notes simply to keep local commerce functioning. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona served several of these smaller Catalan municipalities, acting as a regional printer for what were essentially necessity issues.
Turró's catalog documents over 2,000 such emissions; this one at #2121 sits deep in that count.