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25 Céntimos Ripoll
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ripoll (Municipality of Ripoll) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Ripoll is centrally placed against a column capital vignette, printed in blue and light green tones with a decorative perimeter frame. The overall design is executed in a simple letterpress style typical of Civil War-era Spanish emergency municipal issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ripoll 25 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 locally issued emergency notes that flooded Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain during the Civil War, when the hoarding of metal coinage — copper included — created an acute shortage of small change. Municipalities, trade unions, cooperatives, and even individual businesses printed their own fractional currency with whatever presses were available. Ripoll's notes were printed by its own local arts cooperative, a detail that puts production and political authority in unusually close alignment for a town of that size.
The Turró catalogue documents over 2,000 distinct Republican-era local issues; this is one of the later-numbered entries, suggesting it has not historically attracted heavy collector demand.