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1 Peseta Castelldefels
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelldefels (Municipality of Castelldefels) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLDEFELS VAL PER UNA PESSETA SEGONS ACORD DEL 23 D`ABRIL DEL 1937 REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Castelldefels Valid for One Peseta According to agreement of April 23, 1937 Reimbursable to the municipal bank Of mandatory course for all the municipal term) |
| Reverse description | A landscape vignette fills the upper portion of the note, showing the medieval castle of Castelldefels with the Torre Barona visible against the skyline. In the foreground, a worker and a peasant are shown in an embrace, symbolising solidarity between industrial and agricultural labour — a common Republican iconographic motif of the period. The denomination and issuer inscription appear below in bold letterpress type. |
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Castelldefels issued its own emergency small-change notes in 1937 because the Spanish Civil War had effectively destroyed the circulation of metallic coinage — silver and copper were hoarded, melted, or simply absent. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did the same, producing what collectors now call "moneda local" or "paper de guerra." The Turró catalog documents over a thousand such issuers; Castelldefels sits among the smaller coastal towns whose output was necessarily limited and locally absorbed.
The printer, C.A.M. in Barcelona, handled municipal jobs for multiple Catalan administrations during this period. Castelldefels notes from this series are not common — the town's wartime population was small, surviving quantities modest.