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1 Peseta Aiguamúrcia
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola Aiguamúrcia (Secció Cooperativa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRICOLA AIGUAMURCIA (Secció Cooperativa) Reconeix a favor del portador UNA Pesseta Aiguamúrcia, 1 de Juliol del 1937. (Translation: Agricultural Union Aiguamurcia Cooperative Section Recognizes in favor of the bearer One Peseta Aiguamúrcia, July 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain brown letterpress text on cream paper, with the abbreviated denomination 'UNA pta.' and the issuer's name repeated in full. A vignette of two unclothed children at play with a bunch of grapes occupies the central field, evoking the agricultural character of the issuing cooperative. |
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Aiguamúrcia is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its agricultural cooperative issued its own emergency scrip when coin hoarding stripped the local economy of usable small change. The Sindicat Agrícola's cooperative section was the typical vehicle for this — collectivized agriculture needed a medium of exchange that the Republican government in Madrid and the Generalitat in Barcelona were both too stretched to supply in adequate quantity.
The Turró reference is unassigned, which places this note among the lesser-documented local emissions — either too rare for sustained study or catalogued under a variant system.