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1 Peseta Ribes de Freser
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Ribes de Freser |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brownish red on cream paper, the obverse presents a decorative stepped rectangular frame enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Ribes de Freser at upper left, with the issuing authority's name and legal text in Catalan arranged across the note. Horizontal rule lines and corner ornaments complete the typographic border design. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brownish red on cream paper, the reverse centres the large numeral '1' within a stepped rectangular frame composed of parallel rule lines, with the denomination 'PESSETA' lettered below. An applied oval municipal stamp in violet ink, bearing the coat of arms and the circular legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RIBES DE FRESER', is hand-struck to the right, serving as the primary authentication device. |
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Ribes de Freser is a small town in the Ripollès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper money — moneda local — when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal had no printing infrastructure of its own; most of these small-town issues were produced by whatever commercial printer was accessible, and the official stamp served as the primary authentication, making forgery trivially easy but official oversight essentially impossible.
Turró catalogues this as #2106, placing it within the enormous documented body of Catalan wartime municipal issues. By 1939 all of it was worthless.