Catalog
1 Peseta Banyoles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Banyoles (Municipality of Banyoles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note enclosed within a decorative ornamental border of repeating geometric and foliate motifs. At upper centre, the issuing authority legend appears in bold display typeface above a large circular blank vignette field at left, flanked on both sides by numeral "1" denomination tablets. The redemption pledge text occupies the right half of the note beneath a small guilloche ornament and serial number, with the mayor's manuscript signature below and the emission year in a ruled panel at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Dark red-brown letterpress note with a cross-hatched guilloche underprint covering the entire field. At centre-left, an oval vignette encloses a landscape view of the Estany de Banyoles (Lake of Banyoles), rendered with fine line engraving showing the lake shoreline, reed beds, and distant treeline beneath a clouded sky. The numeral "1" appears in rectangular cartouches flanking the oval at left and right, while a large circular blank stamp field occupies the right portion of the note; denomination tablets reading "UNA PESSETA" are placed at upper and lower right corners. |
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Banyoles issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 under the authority of the Catalan regional government's decree permitting municipalities to produce small-denomination paper money to address a severe shortage of metallic coin. The shortage was partly a consequence of silver and copper being hoarded or diverted toward the war effort following the July 1936 uprising.
These local issues, known as "moneda municipal" or more colloquially as "moneda de guerra," were technically only valid within the issuing municipality's territory. Banyoles, a small lakeside town in the Girona province, produced a tight series; Turró catalogues relatively few notes from this issuer, making any example from the series harder to source than those from larger Catalan towns.