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1 Peseta Castellbell i el Vilar
| Issuer | Castellbell i el Vilar, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Castellbell i el Vilar, flanked by floral decorations and a vignette of an automatic loom with its change mechanism, referencing the town's industrial textile heritage. The face value numeral '1' appears at upper left and right corners, with the issuing authority legend arched across the top and a detailed promise-to-pay text occupying the lower portion of the note. The overall design is executed in letterpress in a single dark colour on cream paper stock. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLBELL I EL VILAR Aquest Ajuntament abonará al portador UNA PESSETA amb moneda de curs legal del Banc d'Espanyao bé de la Generalitat de Catalunya en virtut de l'acord del 22 de maig del 1937. DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT AQUEST TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Castellbell i el Vilar This City Council will pay the bearer One Peseta with currency of legal tender of the Bank of Spain or of the Generalitat de Catalunya by virtue of the agreement of May 22, 1937. Of mandatory course for all this Municipal Term) |
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Castellbell i el Vilar is a small industrial municipality in the Llobregat valley, its economy anchored almost entirely by the textile mill at Cal Marçal. During the Civil War, the Republican government's decree authorizing municipalities to issue their own fractional currency — the so-called "moneda local" — produced thousands of these locally printed notes across Catalonia, but issues from villages this small are among the more difficult to locate today.
The printer, C.A.M., produced a significant number of these municipal emergency issues out of Barcelona, effectively running a cottage industry in wartime scrip. Turró catalogues this as #695.