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50 Céntimos Riudecols
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Riudecols |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2163 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RIUDECOLS VAL PER 0'50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Riudecols / Voucher / for 0.50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | The face value '0'50 centims' is printed in bold black letterpress across the centre of the note. An oval purple ink municipal stamp, bearing the legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' around its border and enclosing a coat of arms vignette, is applied over the lower portion of the field; a second rectangular purple ink stamp with geometric patterning appears to the right, partially overlapping the oval impression. |
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Riudecols is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation after 1936. These municipal notes — collectively termed moneda de paper local or vales — were produced under chaotic conditions, often locally printed or even handwritten, with no central oversight of design or quality.
Turró's catalog documents over two thousand such issuers. That this note survives at all, given the destruction wrought by the post-war Francoist suppression of Republican municipalities, is the more remarkable fact.