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1 Peseta Cassà de la Selva
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cassà de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow dotted underprint overlaid with a violet decorative border of wavy and ornamental rules enclosing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Cassà de la Selva — a shield bearing a shepherd figure and vertical stripes — is printed in red within a framed vignette at the upper left, while the denomination numeral '1' appears in violet at each corner. Three facsimile signatures in red, corresponding to the Alcalde, the Secretari-Interventor, and the Dipositari, are printed across the lower portion above the serial number panel. |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a yellow dotted underprint forming a central rectangular panel, enclosed by concentric violet decorative borders of wavy rules. The word 'VAL' is set in large bold lettering at the centre of the inner panel, with the mandatory circulation text below, while vertical side panels on both left and right carry the denomination legend '1 PESSETA' in upright violet letterpress. The printer's imprint 'IMP. VILLALLONGA - CASSA' appears at the foot of the note. |
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Cassà de la Selva is a small industrial town in the Gironès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament began issuing emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican-zone silver and copper coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local bodies to fill the gap, producing a chaotic but historically rich proliferation of hyper-local paper money across the region.
Turró 687 places this among the documented Catalan municipal issues, printed locally by Vilallonga — a detail that matters, since many comparable towns had to outsource to Barcelona printers. The note never left its immediate area in any practical sense.