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1 Peseta Berga
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Berga |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Berga is positioned to the left, accompanied by a vignette of an industrial factory, evoking the town's productive economy. The denomination and issuing authority are rendered in letterpress across the face, with the full legal text of obligation and reimbursement set in smaller type below. The overall layout is plain and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency issues of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL BERGA 1 PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council Berga 1 Peseta) |
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Berga is a small Catalan town in the Berguedà comarca, and like dozens of municipalities across Republican-held Catalonia, its council issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the circulation of small-denomination coinage effectively collapsed in 1936–37. These local notes — known collectively as paper moneda de guerra — were produced by the hundreds of different issuing bodies, and the Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona acted as a centralized printer for many of them, giving the series a degree of typographic consistency that the chaotic political moment might suggest it lacked.
Turró 424 is among the more routinely encountered Berga issues, though thin paper stocks from this period are vulnerable to tearing along fold lines.