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50 Céntimos Riudebitlles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Riudebitlles |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 108 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The face value numeral '50' is set within a diamond-shaped guilloche frame at centre, itself enclosed within a circular cartouche, all surrounded by elaborate acanthus-scroll and foliate ornamental vignettes extending to all four corners, printed in orange-red on cream paper. The issuer name and denomination appear in letterpress along the horizontal axis, with the serial number printed twice flanking the central motif. A circular violet official validation stamp is applied over the left portion of the design, and the printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE RIUDEBITLLES 50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Riudebitlles 50 Centimos) |
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Riudebitlles is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it resorted to issuing its own fractional paper money after the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 drained metallic coin from circulation almost immediately. The Catalan regional government authorized municipal councils to print these emergency notes — known collectively as moneda local or paper moneda — and by 1937 the volume of separate local issues across Catalonia numbered in the hundreds.
The printer, Arts Gràfiques Benaiges, operated as a collectivized workshop in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia under anarcho-syndicalist worker control during this period, which is precisely what "Impremta Col·lectiva" signals in the imprint.