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50 Céntimos Ripollet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Ripollet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RIPOLLET CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL PER ACORD DEL 30 D`ABRIL DEL 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Ripollet (Translation: Municipal Council of Ripollet Fifty Centimos Refundable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of April 30, 1937 Of mandatory course throughout the Municipal term of Ripollet) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print on plain paper with an elaborate guilloche-style geometric framework filling the entire field. A large central oval vignette carries the denomination numeral '0,50' above the inscription 'PESSETES', encircled by the legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL RIPOLLET'. The four corners each bear a smaller circular cartouche repeating the '0,50' value figure. |
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Ripollet is a small industrial municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its council issued its own emergency small change — the Republican government's copper and silver coins had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1937, hoarded or melted. These local emissions, generically called "moneda de necessitat," were authorized under a 1936 Generalitat de Catalunya decree that gave municipal councils the legal cover to print what the banking system could no longer supply.
Turró catalogues over 2,000 such emissions. That this one was printed at C.A.M. in Barcelona rather than locally is worth noting — smaller municipalities often lacked the press capacity and contracted out.