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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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| Size | 84 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Palafrugell DEPARTAMENT DE FINANCES VAL per 0`25 ptes. reemborsables a la caixa de la Dipositaria Municipal. Palafrugell, gener del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Palafrugell Department of Finances Voucher for 0.25 Pesetas refundable at the savings bank office of the Municipal Depository. Palafrugell, January 1937) |
| 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. |
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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.