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1 Peseta Balsareny
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Balsareny |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Balsareny Castle with its hermitage set upon a rocky hill on the right bank of the Llobregat River, rendered in a simple illustrative style above the town. The issuer name and face value appear in surrounding text, with the denomination stated both in abbreviated and full form. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BALSARENY UNA PESSETA (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Balsareny One Peseta) |
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Balsareny is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency paper scrip in 1937 to address a acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Republican government had effectively lost control of the coin supply by mid-conflict, and local councils stepped into the vacuum with their own printed currency — legally sanctioned under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree of May 1937 that briefly formalized what had already become widespread improvised practice.
Turró's catalog documents over a thousand such municipal issues from Catalonia alone. Most were printed in very limited runs by local job printers with no specialized security printing experience.