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25 Céntimos Ribes de Freser
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink on plain paper, with ornamental typographic embellishments flanking the central text block. The municipal coat of arms of Ribes de Freser is positioned to the left of the text. The full issuing authority legend, authorization clause referencing the municipal agreement of 12 May 1937, and the denomination value are set in Catalan text across the central field. |
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| Reverse description | The central field carries a pastoral vignette of the village of Ribes de Freser, with a shepherd and his flock of sheep in the foreground — an allusion to Manelic, the archetypal Catalan shepherd figure from Àngel Guimerà's drama Terra Baixa. The place name and denomination numeral appear in the surrounding text. |
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Ribes de Freser is a small Pyrenean town in Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional paper money to compensate for the near-total disappearance of copper and silver coin from circulation. The Republican government's wartime decree authorizing local emergency currency opened the door to thousands of these village-level issues, most printed in tiny quantities and used only within the issuing municipality.
Turró catalogues this as #2110. Local issues from small Ripollès towns survive in far lower numbers than their urban counterparts — the smaller the issuing body, the shorter the print run.