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1 Peseta Bages d'en Selves
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bages d'en Selves |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE BAGES D'EN SELVES UNA PESSETA Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal per acord del dia 9 d'octubre del 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Bages d'en Selves (Translation: City Council of Bages d'en Selves One Peseta Refundable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of October 9, 1937 Mandatory legal tender throughout the municipality of Bages d'en Selves) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAGES D'EN SELVES 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Bages d'en Selves 1 Peseta) |
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Bages de Rodes — the municipality's name at the time — issued this note under the emergency local currency decree of June 1937, when the Generalitat de Catalunya authorized Catalan ajuntaments to print their own small-denomination paper to address the near-total disappearance of coinage from circulation. Republican Spain was hemorrhaging metal: copper, silver, and nickel were being hoarded, melted, or diverted to wartime production, leaving everyday retail transactions nearly impossible.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such municipal emissions. The Bages de Rodes issue is among the more obscure ones, from a small Alt Empordà municipality with a correspondingly small print run.