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25 Céntimos Rupit
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rupit |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in violet by letterpress, the note carries the inscription CONSELL MUNICIPAL at top centre and RUPIT at bottom centre, with the denomination 25 CÈNTIMS set within a central circular guilloche vignette surrounded by radiating ornamental hatching. Diamond-shaped corner devices each bear the numeral 0·25, while a rectangular serial number box appears in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RUPIT S`ABONA DE LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT de VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS per acord del 6 de juny del 1937 Bitllet de curs local obligatori (Translation: Municipal Council of Rupit The Municipal Fund is paid to the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centimos By virtue of agreement of June 6, 1937. Mandatory local course banknote) |
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Rupit is a small village in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and its municipal council — like hundreds of others across the Republican zone — issued emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the hoarding and disappearance of metallic coin left local commerce at a standstill. These hyper-local emissions, collectively catalogued as "moneda de necessitat," were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree of November 1936, which gave municipalities formal cover to do what many were already doing informally.
The C.A.M. printing house in Barcelona handled a substantial volume of these small municipal issues, which is part of why Rupit's notes look more finished than those from villages that resorted to rubber stamps and cardstock.