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1 Peseta Altafulla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Altafulla (Municipality of Altafulla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALTAFULLA VAL per UNA PESSETA al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi (Translation: City Council of Altafulla Voucher for One Peseta for the sole purpose of facilitating change) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Altafulla is a small coastal municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The silver and copper coins people needed for small transactions had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped moving — so local councils stepped in with cardboard. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized these municipal emissions in 1937, giving them a thin veneer of legality without standardizing how they were produced.
Turró's catalog documents over 1,500 such local issues from Catalonia alone. Altafulla's emission is among the more obscure, from a village of well under a thousand inhabitants at the time.