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1 Peseta Cabassers
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cabassers (Municipality of Cabacés) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream field enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border in brown-violet letterpress. The issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT DE CABASSERS' appears in bold spaced capitals across the top, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule with a small ornamental device at centre. The denomination 'VAL per UNA pesseta' is set in bold type at left, while the purpose clause 'Al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi' occupies the upper right. The date 'Cabassers, Febrer del 1937.' is centred at lower right, with manuscript signatures below the printed designations 'L'ALCALDE' and 'EL DIPOSITARI'. |
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| Reverse description | Brown-violet series and serial number printed in letterpress, accompanied by the coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia). |
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Cabacés is a small municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Consell Municipal assumed monetary functions it was never designed to hold. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant volume of these local wartime issues for villages across the province, producing runs that were often tiny by any commercial standard.
Turró catalogues this as #547, placing it within a well-documented but still sparsely surviving category of provincial Civil War paper.