Catalog
1 Peseta Amer
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Amer |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain typographic design printed in dark green on a beige geometric guilloche underprint composed of repeating circular rosette motifs within a ruled border. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'AMER' appears in large bold capitals at upper left, with the denomination numeral '1' and abbreviation 'PTA.' at upper right. The bearer clause in Catalan, the issue date, series letter, and serial number are set in letterpress, with two manuscript signatures below their respective titles. |
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| Reverse description | Typographic design in dark green on a beige geometric guilloche underprint of repeating circular rosette motifs within a ruled border, matching the obverse layout. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'AMER' is set in large bold capitals at centre, with the numeral '1' at lower right. The mandatory local currency declaration appears at lower left, and the series letter and serial number are repeated at upper right. |
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Amer is a small municipality in the Girona comarca of La Selva, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These municipally-issued notes — collectively catalogued under Turró for Catalonia — were purely local instruments, accepted only within the issuing town and worthless the moment you crossed into the next.
Production quality varied wildly across the series; Amer's issues are among the more obscure, with survival rates low enough that even circulated examples require effort to locate.