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50 Céntimos Ribes de Freser

Emittent Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser (Municipality of Ribes de Freser, Province of Girona)
Jahr 1937
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Währung Peseta (1936-1939)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Printed in black on white paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a partial view of the village of Ribes de Freser with a shepherd and his flock of sheep in the foreground, representing Manelic, the iconic Catalan shepherd character from playwright Àngel Guimerà's work Terra Baixa. Denomination and municipal authority inscriptions are arranged around the vignette in letterpress. The date of the authorising municipal agreement, 12 May 1937, is incorporated into the text.
Vorderseitenlegende AJUNTAMENT de RIBES DE FRESER REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL PER ACORD DEL DIA 12 DE MAIG DE 1937 50 CENTIMS
(Translation: City Council of Ribes de Freser Reintegratable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of May 12, 1937. 50 Centimos)
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Ribes de Freser is a small mountain town in the Ripollès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the central government's coin supply collapsed in 1936. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets locals* phenomenon — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's directives, which gave municipalities latitude to print their own small-denomination notes rather than wait for a centralized solution that never came.

Turró's cataloguing of this piece as #2112 places it well into the middle of a corpus that runs to several thousand distinct local issues. The Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser produced a limited run; surviving examples in any condition are uncommon, as most small municipal issues were redeemed or simply discarded after the Nationalist takeover of Catalonia in early 1939.