Catalog
1 Peseta Castellfollit de Riubregós
| Issuer | Alcaldia de Castellfullit de Riubregós |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#728 |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA pesseta ALCALDIA DE CASTELLFULLIT DE RIUBREGOS Reintegrable a la Caixa del Municipi (Translation: One Peseta Mayoralty of Castellfullit de Riubregós Redeemable at the Municipal Treasury) |
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| Protection description | Violet oval municipal stamp of the Alcaldia applied to the reverse; handwritten authorising signature overlapping the stamp |
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Castellfollit de Riubregós is a small inland municipality in the comarca of Anoia, Catalonia, and this 1 peseta note belongs to the vast wave of emergency fractional currency — moneda local or "guerra civil" issues — produced by Catalan towns and villages during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's chronic shortage of small change left local commerce effectively paralyzed. Hundreds of municipalities, many far smaller than any institution that would ordinarily issue currency, resorted to printing their own.
Turró catalogues this as #728, placing it within a well-documented but still incompletely inventoried series. The thick card stock was a practical choice; it held up marginally better than thin paper under daily use in a village economy.