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0.25 Pesetas Ripoll del Vallès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ripoll del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text on plain paper ground, with a rectangular perimeter frame enclosing the full face text. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan within a formal, unadorned layout. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a photographic halftone vignette printed in blue, reproducing an interior view of the Municipal Library of Ripoll del Vallès, with bookshelves lining the walls and reading chairs visible in the foreground. A chandelier is discernible in the upper portion of the image. The mandatory circulation legend is printed in blue letterpress across the lower margin. |
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Ripoll del Vallès — not to be confused with the larger town of Ripoll in Girona — was among hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after Republican Spain's coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down by 1937. These locally authorized notes, known as vals or moneda local, were technically illegal under central Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
El Secretariat Català printed for numerous small Ajuntaments simultaneously, which occasionally creates attribution confusion when unsigned sheets surface without municipal stamps. Turró#2136 is among the less-documented entries in the Catalan emergency series.