Catalog
1 Peseta Cadaqués
| Issuer | Cadaqués, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light ground with a wavy-line guilloche border in green at the perimeter, punctuated by small corner ornaments. The issuing authority CONSELL MUNICIPAL and town name Cadaqués are printed in green letterpress at upper left, with the large numeral 1 and denomination PESSETA in red at lower left. A serial number field in red appears at upper right, with manuscript signature lines for Alcalde President and Dipositari across the centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single large oval red handstamp applied at centre, carrying the legend AJUNTAMENT DE CADAQUÉS around the perimeter and ALCALDIA at centre top, with a small heraldic vignette in the middle of the stamp. |
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Cadaqués issued its own fractional currency in the summer of 1936 as the Republican zone's coin supply collapsed almost immediately after the military uprising. Municipalities across Catalonia — and much of the rest of Republican Spain — were left to solve the small-change crisis locally, printing their own emergency notes with whatever printer was available. Trayter in Figueres was a logical choice for the Alt Empordà coastal villages, handling multiple municipal issues in the region during this period.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan guerra civil locals, and Cadaqués sits among the more obscure issuing authorities in the series — a fishing village of a few hundred inhabitants printing money.