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1 Peseta Arenys de Munt
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Arenys de Munt |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ARENYS DE MUNT reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 1 PESSETA Arenys de Munt, a 5 d'Abril del 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Arenys de Munt recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 1 Peseta Arenys de Munt, on April 5, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper, the entire field filled with intricate guilloche scrollwork and foliate underprint patterns. At center, a decagonal vignette encloses a tree growing from a mountain range — the municipal arms motif — flanked by large stylized numerals "1" and the abbreviation "PTA." A serial number is printed in black at the bottom center. |
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Arenys de Munt is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's small-change crisis made commercial transactions nearly impossible. The Turró catalogue documents over a thousand such local issues from Catalonia alone — this is one of the more obscure, from a town of only a few thousand inhabitants.
Municipal paper of this type was technically illegal under Republican central banking law, but Madrid looked the other way out of necessity.