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1 Peseta Castellfollit de Riubregós
| Issuer | Alcaldia de Castellfullit de Riubregós |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream paper with horizontal green stripe underprint. The denomination "UNA pesseta" is set in large bold black type to the left, flanked by a vertical guilloche-style bar pattern in green. To the right, an oval municipal seal of the Alcaldia de Castellfullit de Riubregós shows a stylised tower vignette. The redemption legend appears along the lower margin in smaller black type. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock bearing a large violet oval municipal stamp of the Alcaldia de Castellfullit de Riubregós, with the tower device at centre, applied by hand. A handwritten signature appears across the stamp in black ink, authenticating the note for circulation. |
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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.