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1 Peseta Ribes del Penedès
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Ribes del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue letterpress on plain paper, the obverse is enclosed within a ruled perimeter frame and centred on a vignette of the old Castle of Ribes flanked by ears of wheat and bunches of grapes, with the Catalan coat of arms visible behind the castle. The issuing authority's name and the denomination arc around the vignette, while a smaller block of legislative text below records the full terms of the authorising municipal agreement dated 22 May 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue letterpress, the reverse centres on the numeral '1' and the word 'PESSETA' set within a circular guilloche rosette, which is in turn enclosed by overlapping geometric lathe-work rings radiating outward to fill the entire face. The issuing authority's name runs in curved letterpress type along the four outer edges, and the printer's imprint appears in small type at the lower margin. |
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Ribes del Penedès was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued their own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Consell Municipal — effectively the local revolutionary committee by 1937 — authorized these notes to keep basic commerce moving in a town of a few thousand people. The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a large volume of such municipal commissions simultaneously, which accounts for the consistent typographic quality across many otherwise obscure local issues.
Turró's cataloguing of this series remains the essential reference; without it, attribution of many Penedès-region notes would be nearly impossible.