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1 Peseta Ribarroja
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ribarroja |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1235-C, TurróPV#1234 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink with a geometric border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in bold capital lettering. The text block is centrally arranged, stating the municipal obligation to pay the bearer. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with faint ghost impression of the obverse text visible through the sheet. A handwritten ink signature appears in the centre, accompanied by an inked rubber stamp of the local municipal coat of arms applied in blue-violet to the upper right. |
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One of hundreds of local emergency notes — called moneda municipal or paper de guerra — issued by Spanish Republican municipalities during the Civil War after the central government's silver and copper coinage evaporated from circulation almost overnight in 1936. Ribarroja (now Riba-roja de Túria, Valencia) was a modest agricultural commune with no banking infrastructure; issuing its own fractional paper was a practical necessity, not a political gesture.
Turró and Gari remain the authoritative references for these Valencian issues, and the dual citation here reflects how thoroughly catalogued — yet individually obscure — most village notes in this series are.