Catalog
50 Céntimos Ribes de Freser
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2109 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT de RIBES de FRESER Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal per acord del dia 12 de Maig de 1937. 50 cts. (Translation: City Council of Ribes de Freser Reintegratable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of May 12, 1937. 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | RIBES de FRESER 50 (Translation: Ribes de Freser 50) |
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Ribes de Freser is a small town in the Ripollès comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation in 1937. The central government could not supply enough small change to keep local commerce running, and towns filled the gap themselves — a chaotic but pragmatic arrangement that produced thousands of distinct local emissions, most in tiny quantities.
Turró catalogues this emission, but surviving examples are scarce simply because the issuing volume was low and the notes were essentially disposable scrip.