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1 Peseta Banyoles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Banyoles (Municipality of Banyoles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#288 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BANYOLES 1 LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL REINTEGRARA AL PORTADOR UNA PESSETA UNA PESSETA L'ALCALDE EMISSIO 1937 (Translation: City Council of Banyoles 1 The Municipal Treasury will refund the bearer One Peseta One Peseta The Mayor Issue 1937) |
| 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.