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1 Peseta Calonge de la Costa Brava
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Calonge de la Costa Brava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted note with a double-line rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms of Calonge is printed to the left, enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. The issuer's name appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, with the denomination UNA PESSETA in large type at centre, and the place and date of issue below. Three signature lines are arranged along the lower margin, captioned EL CONSELLER PRIMER, EL SECRETARI-INTERVENTOR, and EL DIPOSITARI. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consell Municipal de Calonge de la Costa Brava pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA CALONGE, 19 de Maig del 1937. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Calonge de la Costa Brava will pay the bearer One Peseta Calonge, May 19, 1937.) |
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Calonge is a small municipality in Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency scrip when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal — the local governing council under the wartime republican administration — authorized these notes to keep petty commerce functioning. Printed by C. Barnés in nearby Palamós, the note didn't travel far geographically or economically.
Turró's catalog documents well over a thousand such local emissions, and Calonge's entry at #610 is unremarkable in type, though surviving examples in any condition are genuinely scarce given the small print runs and the chaos that followed Franco's advance into Catalonia in early 1939.