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50 Céntimos Riudecanyes
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Riudecanyes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Sanjuan, Reus, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in brown ink on a light blue dotted underprint, the face value is set within a central double-line frame rendered in two contrasting colors. A geometric guilloche border frames the entire note, with the issuing authority and denomination inscriptions arranged around the central value panel. The overall composition is simple and utilitarian, consistent with wartime municipal emergency currency. |
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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 village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely reached 500 during the 1930s, which makes this emission one of the more granular examples of the Republican monetary fragmentation that swept Catalonia after July 1936. With the banking system disrupted and metal coinage hoarded or melted, municipalities down to the smallest scale were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to issue paper fraccionary currency to keep local commerce moving.
Imprenta Sanjuan in Reus handled printing for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, which means production quality is reasonably consistent across the Camp de Tarragona local issues, even if the authorizing bodies behind them varied wildly in administrative competence.