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1 Peseta Banyeres del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Banyeres (Municipality of Banyeres del Penedès) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament de Banyeres pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA JUNY DEL 1937 Nº L'Alcalde-President, El Conseller de Finances, El Dipositari, (Translation: The Municipality of Banyeres will pay the bearer One Peseta June 1937 No. The Mayor-President, The Finance Councillor, The Treasurer) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream field enclosed by multiple concentric decorative borders printed in blue, comprising an outer wavy-line frame, an inner band of repeating rosette motifs, and a further geometric rule border. A central cartouche formed by undulating guilloche waves encloses the numeral '1' above the legend 'PESSETA', flanked on each side by small star ornaments. A violet circular official cancellation stamp is applied over the centre. The printer's imprint 'Imp. Ramon' appears in small letterpress type at the foot of the note. |
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Banyeres del Penedès is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and this 1937 peseta note is exactly the kind of emergency fractional currency that proliferated across Republican Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising drained coin from circulation almost overnight. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many far smaller than anyone would expect to be issuing currency — commissioned local printers to produce these bitllets locals, and Imprenta Ramon in nearby El Vendrell handled several such commissions in the region.
Turró catalogues over 1,500 distinct Catalan local issues from this period. That number is the sharpest way to understand how chaotic daily commerce had become.