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1 Peseta Breda
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Breda (Municipality of Breda) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BREDA Serie A No 3430 1 Pta. 1 Pta. Tip. A. Benages. - A. Balmes, 39. Tel. 10739 (Translation: City Council of Breda Series A No. 3430 1 Peseta 1 Peseta Tip. A. Benages. - A. Balmes, 39. Tel. 10739) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Pta. GARANTITZAT DE CIRCULACIÓ L`AJUNTAMENT DE BREDA pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Breda 11 de maig del 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta Guaranteed circulation The City Council of Breda will pay the bearer One Peseta Breda May 11, 1937) |
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Breda is a small Catalan municipality in the Selva comarca, and this 1 Pesseta note is one of hundreds of locally-issued emergency fractional currencies that flooded Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain after July 1936. The immediate cause was a severe shortage of metallic coin — silver and copper disappeared from circulation almost overnight as hoarding accelerated following the military uprising. Municipalities, trade unions, and cooperative societies all stepped in with their own paper and cardboard substitutes.
Tipografia A. Benages in Barcelona produced issues for several of these small municipal authorities, working under considerable pressure as demand for emergency printing ran well ahead of capacity. Turró catalogs this as #533.