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1 Peseta Arenys de Munt
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Arenys de Munt |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#192 |
| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative scalloped and geometric perimeter border; a small octagonal municipal emblem bearing the initials 'A' and 'R' with a tree motif is centred at the top between the issuer's name. The face value '1 PESSETA' appears in large display type at centre, below which the issuance date and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials are arranged, identified by their respective titles: El Conseller d'Economia, El President del Consell, and El Secretari. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse is covered by a dense guilloche underprint of interlocking foliate and scroll patterns across the entire field. At centre, an octagonal cartouche encloses a vignette of a tree rising above a mountain landscape, flanked on either side by large stylized numerals and the abbreviated denomination 'PTA.', with a serial number printed in black at the bottom centre below the cartouche. |
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One of thousands of emergency local currency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of central banking infrastructure and acute coin shortages forced municipalities to print their own. Arenys de Munt, a small inland town north of Barcelona, issued this note under authority of its municipal council — a common arrangement that the Generalitat of Catalonia had effectively sanctioned by 1937, however informally.
Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for these Catalan war issues precisely because no central registry existed at the time of printing. Many municipal notes from this period survive only in single-digit quantities.