Catalog
1 Peseta Calldetenes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calldetenes (Municipality of Calldetenes) |
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| Size | 64 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text in blue ink on white card stock, with the municipal seal of Calldetenes — incorporating a tree motif — serving as a central underprint. All inscriptions are in Catalan, stating the denomination, mandatory circulation status, and a warning against interference with the note's circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA PESSETA CURS OBLIGATORI AJUNTAMENT DE CALLDETENES L`intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament (Translation: One Peseta Mandatory course City Council of Calldetenes Attempted traffic disruption of this voucher will be severely sanctioned) |
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Calldetenes is a tiny municipality in Osona, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. This note is one of thousands of emergency fractional issues produced by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's coin shortage — triggered by mass hoarding and the melting of silver — left small communities effectively without small change. Local councils were legally permitted, then tacitly encouraged, to fill the gap themselves.
The Turró catalogue remains the authoritative reference for these Catalan municipal emissions. Many issues from villages this small had print runs in the hundreds, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon rather than merely scarce by convention.