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1 Peseta Barberà de la Conca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Barberà de la Conca |
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| Size | 63 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown on a pale yellow ground, with the issuer's name and promise-to-pay legend set in bold uppercase type across the upper and central portions of the face. The face value UNA PESSETA is rendered in large display lettering at the centre, below a smaller bearer clause. A rope-twist guilloche border frames the entire composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BARBERÀ DE LA CONCA 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Barberà de la Conca 1 Peseta) |
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Barberà de la Conca is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and this note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of conventional coin circulation in Republican-held territory. The 1936–1939 period saw municipalities, collectives, and unions across Catalonia printing their own fractional currency — most of it in tiny runs, on whatever paper and presses were locally available.
Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc, the comarca's capital, printed several of these municipal issues. The shared printer explains why notes from different villages in the region are often typographically similar despite representing entirely separate issuing authorities.