Catalog
1 Peseta Bordils
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bordils |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text on a green-printed card, enclosed within a simple decorative border with small ornamental corner motifs. The denomination numeral '1' and abbreviation 'PTA' appear in the upper left, with the issuer title 'Consell Municipal de Bordils' across the top and the large bold legend 'VAL per UNA pta.' occupying the centre field. The date of the authorising session and place-date of issue are set in smaller type, with the printed signatures of the President of the Council and the Councillor of Finance at the foot, over an applied circular official stamp in violet ink. |
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| Reverse lettering | L'Ajuntament entregarà l'import del present val en moneda legal, al presentador del mateix. (Translation: The City Council will deliver the amount of this voucher in legal currency to the presenter of the same.) |
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Bordils is a small municipality in the Gironès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities authorized local governments to address a severe shortage of small coinage. The Consell Municipal issues from this period were purely practical stop-gaps — printed locally, often on whatever card stock was available, and redeemable only within the issuing municipality's own commerce.
Turró catalogues this as #485, placing it firmly within the dense cluster of Catalan wartime locals. The thick card construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper.