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1 Peseta Altafulla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Altafulla (Municipality of Altafulla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 62 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central field carries the bold numeral "1" flanked symmetrically by two stylised fish or dolphin figures in a light yellow underprint panel. Wide ornamental borders on both sides bear densely composed floral and foliate woodcut motifs in dark brown on an ochre ground, framing the central design in a decorative letterpress style. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALTAFULLA 1 PESSETA EMISSIÓ ACORDADA PER L'AJUNTAMENT EN SESSIÓ DEL 20 DE NOVEMBRE DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Altafulla 1 Peseta Issue agreed by the city council in session on November 20, 1937) |
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Altafulla is a coastal municipality in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely reached a thousand in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local councils throughout Catalonia to issue their own small-denomination emergency currency after metallic coin vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos of the early war months. Ajuntament d'Altafulla responded like hundreds of other municipalities, commissioning this peseta note from Imprenta Sugrañes in Tarragona, a regional printer responsible for a significant number of the Camp de Tarragona's local emergency issues.
Turró's catalog documents over 1,500 distinct Catalan municipal emissions from this period, and Altafulla's modest single-denomination series is among the more obscure entries.