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1 Peseta Bobera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bobera (Municipality of Bovera) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#523 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher with blue text and double-rule rectangular border enclosing a dotted light blue underprint. The entire face is occupied by typeset text in Catalan arranged in multiple lines, with the denomination and issuing authority rendered in larger display type. No pictorial vignette is present; the design relies entirely on typographic layout for its visual structure. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL de 1 pesseta AJUNTAMENT DE BOBERA VAL d`UNA pesseta de circulació obligatòria dintre de la població, garantit per la Corporació Municipal Bobera, 25 de febrer del 1937. (Translation: Voucher of 1 Peseta City Council of Bobera Voucher of One Peseta of mandatory circulation in the town, guaranteed by the Municipal Corporation. Bobera, February 25, 1937) |
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Bovera is a tiny municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of other Catalan villages, it issued its own emergency paper money during 1937 when the Republican government's currency supply broke down under wartime pressure and small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely. These hyper-local emissions — collectively called "moneda de paper" — were authorized under a 1936 Generalitat decree that gave municipalities limited rights to issue low-value notes as provisional change substitutes.
Turró 523 is among the more obscure entries in that catalog. Survival rates for single-municipality Catalan civil war issues correlate directly with how isolated the town was — Bovera's remoteness likely kept print runs small.