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1 Peseta Cassà de la Selva
| Issuer | Cassà de la Selva, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Vilallonga, Cassà de la Selva, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Cassà de la Selva, printed in orange-red, occupies the upper left quadrant within a decorative border of repeating ornamental motifs in violet. The central text area carries the issuing authority and denomination in bold letterpress, with the redemption clause in smaller italic script below. Three manuscript signatures appear beneath the signature lines for L'Alcalde, El Secretari-interventor, and El Dipositari, with the series letter and serial number printed in the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA VAL de circulació obligatòria per tot el terme municipal de Cassà de la Selva IMP. VILLALLONGA - CASSA (Translation: 1 Peseta Mandatory circulation voucher for the entire municipality of Cassà de la Selva) |
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Cassà de la Selva is a small Catalan industrial town in the Gironès comarca, and like hundreds of other municipalities during the Spanish Civil War it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination coin supply. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader corpus of *moneda local* or *bitllets locals* — were a grassroots monetary necessity, not a political statement.
The Vilallonga print shop was a local operation, and that shows. Production quality across the Cassà de la Selva municipal series is notably inconsistent, with ink coverage and registration varying between sheets. Turró 686 is among the more modestly produced examples in the Gironès group.