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50 Céntimos Riudecanyes

Issuer Consell Municipal de Riudecanyes
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Plain voucher note printed in brown ink on a light green squared-pattern underprint, with a simple double-line border in two colors enclosing the entire face. The central denomination is set within a double-line rectangular frame, with municipal and date inscriptions arranged around it in letterpress typography.
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Reverse lettering 50 Cts. 1937 El Consell Municipal de Riudecanyes, farà efectiu l`import d`aquests VALS a la presentació dels mateixos per valor equivalent al dels Bitllets de curs legal a Catalunya.
(Translation: 50 Centimos The Municipal Council of Riudecanyes will make the amount of these Vouchers effective upon presentation of the same for a value equivalent to that of the legal tender banknotes in Catalonia.)
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Riudecanyes is a small agricultural village in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change forced local councils — ajuntaments and consells — to fill the gap themselves, producing what collectors now classify under the broader "guerra civil" emergency issues.

Imprenta Sanjuan in Reus handled printing for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the shared production quality across the region's local issues. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for these Catalan municipal notes, assigning this piece #2159.

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