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50 Céntimos Ribes del Penedès
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Ribes del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red ink, the obverse presents a central vignette of the old Castle of Ribes framed by ears of wheat and bunches of grapes, with the coat of arms of Catalonia positioned behind the castle. A rectangular perimeter border encloses the composition, with the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions arranged around the central vignette. All text and design elements are rendered in red against the cream paper stock. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red letterpress, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette composed of overlapping concentric circular and petal-shaped lathe-work patterns. Within the innermost circle, the face value "0'50" appears in bold numerals above the word "CÈNTIMS". The issuing authority name arches around the upper and lower perimeter of the design in curved lettering, with the printer's imprint running along the bottom margin. |
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Ribes del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation — hoarded almost immediately once the Republic's monetary situation became uncertain. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized municipal issues of this kind, which is why so many survive with consistent printing quality despite their local origins.
The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a remarkable volume of these municipal emergency notes across the region, giving many of them a shared aesthetic despite different issuing authorities.