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1 Peseta Cantallops
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cantallops (Municipality of Cantallops) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Trayter, Figueres, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue and red on buff card stock, enclosed within a double rectangular frame bordered by an alternating pattern of red and blue dots. The issuer's name appears in blue at the top, with the denomination 'Val per 1 pesseta' rendered in bold red Gothic script at centre. Below the denomination, two signatory titles — 'L'Alcalde' and 'El Depositari' — are set in blue at lower left and right respectively, with the printer's imprint 'Trayter, Figueres' in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff card stock printed in blue only, enclosed within a simple double rectangular frame of ruled lines. A handwritten serial number prefixed by 'No' appears in the upper central area, with a three-line text block in the lower half citing the municipal council resolution authorising the issue and the terms of reimbursement at the municipal treasury. |
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Cantallops is a village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona with a population that barely reached 200 during the 1930s. That such a small municipality issued its own emergency paper currency at all speaks to the complete breakdown of small-denomination coinage supply during the early Spanish Civil War — by mid-1937, the Republican zone was flooded with thousands of these locally printed "moneda local" emissions, each town effectively fending for itself.
Imprenta Trayter in Figueres handled a substantial number of these Alt Empordà municipal issues, which gives this piece a certain regional coherence even amid the chaos. Turró 643 is among the scarcer village-level emissions simply by virtue of the tiny issuing population.