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1 Peseta Calella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calella (Municipality of Calella) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#601 |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PESSETA AJUNTAMENT de CALELLA VAL PER UNA PESSETA Octubre 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta City Council of Calella Valid for One Peseta October 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA AJUNTAMENT de CALELLA a canviar en qualsevol banc de la localitat (Translation: 1 Peseta City Council of Calella to change at any local bank) |
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Calella's 1937 peseta belongs to the vast emergency currency experiment that swept Republican-controlled Catalonia during the Civil War. With the central banking system fractured and small change chronically scarce, hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own paper money under a framework loosely authorized by the Generalitat. Calella's issue was among the more modestly produced — printed locally by Pedemonte rather than contracted to any Barcelona commercial house.
Most of these municipal notes were rendered worthless within months as Republican finances collapsed. Survivors exist largely because they were pocketed as curiosities rather than spent.