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1 Peseta Calldetenes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calldetenes (Municipality of Calldetenes) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock with no printed design. The reverse bears a handwritten signature in violet ink in the upper left area, and five circular embossed or ink stamp impressions — one near centre and one at each corner — consistent with a validation or authentication practice typical of Spanish Civil War emergency issues. |
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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.