Catalog
1 Peseta Botarell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Botarell (Municipality of Botarell) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 200. Val una pesseta 1· Conseller Stri (Translation: No. 200. It is worth one peseta / 1st Councillor Secretary) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse bearing a single oval violet rubber stamp impression applied as the sole authenticating device, centrally placed. |
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Botarell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, its ajuntament issued its own emergency fractional currency — paper money the central Republican government technically discouraged but practically tolerated because the coinage shortage was catastrophic. These hyper-local emissions are catalogued by Turró precisely because no central registry kept track of them systematically.
Survival rates for Botarell issues are poor. Small-run municipal notes from villages this size were printed in tiny quantities, used hard, and rarely preserved.