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1 Peseta Ripoll
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ripoll (Municipality of Ripoll) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 107 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Ripoll is central to the design, with a column capital motif behind it, all rendered in black and light brown on a plain field enclosed by a ruled perimeter frame. The vignette is flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions, with the legal-tender clauses and authorizing agreement dates incorporated into the surrounding text. The overall layout is characteristic of the letterpress-produced wartime emergency issues of Republican Catalonia. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ripoll 1 Bitllet de curs legal a Ripoll Acords del 15 i 29 d` octubre 1937 (Translation: City Council of Ripoll Legal course banknote in Ripoll Agreements of October 15 and 29, 1937) |
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One of hundreds of local emergency notes — billets de necesitat — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change coinage effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936. Ripoll's Ajuntament contracted its own printshop, the Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques, operating just blocks from the town hall, which is why the typography on this series has an unusually artisanal character compared to notes from larger towns that outsourced to Barcelona firms.
Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. That Ripoll rates its own entry at #2133 reflects the extraordinary fragmentation of wartime monetary improvisation in Republican Catalonia — each council effectively became its own issuing authority.