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0.25 Pesetas Palafrugell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafrugell (Municipality of Palafrugell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Plain orange-buff card stock, unadorned save for a three-line black letterpress text centred in the middle of the note, authorising the voucher to circulate freely within the municipal territory of Palafrugell. No vignette, border, or other decorative elements are present. |
| Reverse lettering | Val autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el terme municipal de Palafrugell (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipality of Palafrugell) |
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Palafrugell is a small Catalan coastal municipality, and this quarter-peseta note is one of thousands of emergency paper issues produced by Spanish towns and villages during the Civil War after the Republican government's Decree of 12 May 1937 formally authorized local authorities to issue small-denomination currency. The metal coinage shortage was acute — copper and silver had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936.
Turró catalogues well over 1,700 such municipal emissions, and Palafrugell's entry near the end of that sequence reflects how late into the war the smaller municipalities were still scrambling to fill the gap.