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50 Céntimos Ribarroja
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ribarroja |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Cts. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE RIBARROJA El Consejo Municipal pagará al portador CINCUENTA céntimos Emisión 1-8-1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Ribarroja The Municipal Council will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos Issue August 1, 1937) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Ribarroja — now Riba-roja de Túria, a small municipality in the Valencia region — issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 under the authority of its municipal council, as did hundreds of Valencian and Catalan townships during the Spanish Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in Republican-held territory forced local bodies to print their own substitutes, a phenomenon so widespread that Turó's catalog of Valencian paper money alone runs to thousands of entries.
The dual reference — Gari Monetario and Turó's provincial catalog — reflects the overlapping documentation efforts that emerged decades later to bring order to this chaotic emission. Many Ribarroja pieces were printed in tiny quantities and saw only hyper-local use before the Nationalist advance into Valencia in 1939 ended their validity.