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50 Céntimos Vallfogona de Riucorb

Issuer Consell Municipal de Vallfogona de Riucorb
Year 1937
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Printer Imprenta A. Figueres, Tàrrega, Spain
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Obverse description Letterpress-printed note in brown ink on plain paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with a light brown hatched square underprint background. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper left and lower right, with the issuing authority and payment obligation text arranged in multiple lines across the face.
Obverse lettering 50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VALLFOGONA DE RIUCORP La Dipositaria d`aquest Consell, pagarà al portador 50 Cèntims JULIOL, DEL 1937
(Translation: Municipal Council of Vallfogona de Riucorp The Depositary of this Council, will pay the bearer 50 Centimos July, 1937)
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Vallfogona de Riucorb is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca with a population that rarely exceeded a few hundred — and yet, like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, it issued its own fractional paper currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed under wartime pressure. The Generalitat had authorized local emergency emissions, and Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega printed notes for dozens of these small councils across the Urgell and surrounding districts, which is why the typography and paper stock across Turró-catalogued pieces from this printer often look nearly identical despite different issuing authorities.

Turró #2667 places it firmly within the documented Catalan Civil War municipal series.

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