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0.25 Pesetas Ribesalbes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ribesalbes (Municipality of Ribesalbes, Province of Castellón) |
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| Size | 59 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink paper, the note bears the issuer's name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' in bold capitals above 'RIBESALBES' underlined, with the denomination 'Vale 0'25 Ptas.' in large letters below. A hand-stamped circular municipal seal appears at left, partially overlapping the text. A handwritten serial number is inscribed in the upper right area. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper with no printed design, text, or overprint, showing only the natural texture of the stock used for this wartime emergency issue. |
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Ribesalbes is a small ceramic-producing municipality in the Castellón hinterland with a population that barely reached 600 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage — silver and copper both hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936.
The Gari Montllor catalog documents these Valencian municipal emissions with unusual thoroughness, which is the main reason pieces like this one have any traceable provenance at all. At quarter-peseta denomination, it was the smallest practical unit of exchange most councils bothered to print.