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50 Céntimos Plana de Riucorb
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 103 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note with reddish-brown ink on a beige ground, the perimeter defined by a border of repeating rhombus ornaments enclosing a dotted underprint. The central text block carries the municipal authority inscription and denomination in contrasting lettering weights, with the date of issue rendered in full at the foot of the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Plana de Riucorb La Dipositaria d'aquest Ajuntament, pagarà al portador 50 Cèntims Plana de Riucorb, 1.er de Febrer del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Plana de Riucorb The Depositary of this City Council, will pay the bearer 50 Centimos Plana de Riucorb, February 1, 1937) |
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Plana de Riucorb is a small municipality in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish localities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change crisis of 1936–37 drained coins from circulation almost entirely. These local issues — collectively known as "moneda local" or "guerra civil" notes — were authorised under a decree that briefly allowed municipal councils to print their own low-denomination paper. The practical result was an extraordinary proliferation of hyper-local scrip, most printed in tiny quantities by whatever press happened to be nearby.
Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega handled several municipal commissions from surrounding villages in Urgell, which gives this note a regional coherence that many one-off issues lack. Survival rates for these small rural emissions are unpredictable — low print runs and wartime disruption mean some are genuinely rare, while others turned up in bulk from municipal archives decades later.