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1 Peseta Riudebitlles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Riudebitlles (Municipality of Riudebitlles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan coat of arms appears at the upper centre, above a central allegorical vignette of a seated female figure resting on a cornucopia overflowing with fruit, symbolising abundance, with a cogwheel and industrial factory chimneys with smoke visible in the background. The composition is rendered in a letterpress style typical of Catalan Civil War municipal issues, with the mandatory circulation clause and issuing authority inscriptions arranged around the central design. |
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| Reverse description | The centre of the reverse is occupied by a large numeral "1" set within a circular guilloche, itself inscribed within a bold diamond-shaped cartouche, all surrounded by dense symmetrical scrollwork and foliate arabesques extending to each corner. The issuing authority legend runs horizontally across the mid-field on either side of the central vignette, and the denomination "PESSETA" appears in a rectangular cartouche at the foot of the diamond. Red overprints reading "SERIE B" at upper left and "SERIE A" at lower right indicate series designation, with the printer's imprint at the bottom margin. |
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Riudebitlles is a tiny municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and this 1 Pesseta note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues that flooded Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. The Republican government initially tolerated these municipal emissions, then tried to suppress them — by 1937, many ajuntaments were printing anyway, driven by simple commercial necessity.
Arts Gràfiques Benaiges operated as a collectivized print shop in Sadurní d'Anoia during the war, the "Impremta Col·lectiva" designation reflecting the anarcho-syndicalist labor reorganization of the period.