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1 Peseta Ripoll del Vallès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ripoll del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in brown ink with a plain rectangular border framing the text field. The four-barred coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner, while the body of the note carries the full authorizing text in Catalan in a formal serif typeface. The issuing authority, denomination, authorizing resolution date, and place of issue are all set out in a single continuous block inscription. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a halftone photographic vignette printed in reddish-brown ink, reproducing an interior view of the Municipal Library of Ripoll del Vallès with bookshelves, reading furniture, and architectural details visible. A legend in bold letterpress type runs along the lower margin within a plain rectangular frame. |
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Ripoll del Vallès is a small municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's acute shortage of small-denomination coinage made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorised local bodies to fill the gap, and by 1937 the volume of these municipal emissions across Catalonia numbered in the thousands of distinct issues.
El Secretariat Català was a Barcelona print shop responsible for a significant number of these local wartime notes, which gives Turró#2135 a certain typographic consistency with dozens of other municipal pieces from the same period — useful when authenticating, since forgeries of the more obscure emissions do occasionally surface.