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1.50 Pesetas Barcelona; replica
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Council) |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 1.50 Pesetas 3⁄2 ESP = EUR 0.0090 |
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| Obverse description | Reddish-brown and dark brown letterpress print on a fine guilloche underprint. Left vignette shows the heraldic shield of the City of Barcelona flanked by a 15th-century sailing vessel. Denomination and issuer legend occupy the centre and upper fields. |
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| Reverse description | Light and dark green letterpress print over a fine guilloche underprint composed of repeating 'A' and 'B' letter motifs. Left vignette presents an intaglio-style rendering of the Gothic facade of the old Barcelona City Hall. Large numeral '150' appears at lower left, with denomination 'PESSETES' in bold across the centre. |
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The Ajuntament de Barcelona issued a small run of replica notes in 2003 commemorating the emergency fractional currency it had originally produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican-controlled city faced an acute coin shortage and municipal authorities across Catalonia printed their own scrip. The originals were crude, locally produced necessities; this replica, by contrast, came off the presses of the FNMT in Madrid — a quietly ironic reversal, given the wartime politics involved.
The watermark is the one feature carried over as a nod to authenticity rather than strict security necessity.