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1 Peseta Ripollet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Ripollet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RIPOLLET UNA PESSETA REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL PER ACORD DEL 30 D`ABRIL DEL 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Ripollet (Translation: Municipal Council of Ripollet One Peseta Refundable to the Municipal Savings Fund by agreement of April 30, 1937 Of mandatory course in all the Municipal term of Ripollet) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL RIPOLLET 1 PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council Ripollet 1 Peseta) |
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Ripollet is a small industrial town just north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively acknowledged that the central banking system could no longer supply adequate small-denomination coinage. These local issues — known collectively as *moneda local de necessitat* — were a pragmatic stopgap, not a political statement, though the timing placed them squarely within the revolutionary period of the early war.
The C.A.M. printer handled a significant volume of these municipal issues across the Barcelona area, which means Ripollet's notes share certain typographic characteristics with neighboring towns' emissions — a detail that occasionally causes misattribution in less carefully cataloged collections.