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1 Peseta Castellfollit del Boix
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellfullit del Boix |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text in dark blue ink within a double-rule rectangular border, with the issuer name underlined. The central legend states the municipality's promise to pay the bearer one peseta, with the place and date of issue printed below. The overall layout is plain and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency issue practice. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on cream-coloured card stock displaying a fine mottled or granular texture throughout the surface, consistent with the thick paper used for this emergency issue. A handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner, likely a cataloguer's or collector's reference. |
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Castellfollit del Boix is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly obscure villages, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's central authorities proved unable to supply sufficient coinage for everyday commerce. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually tried to rationalize this proliferation of local scrip, but by 1937 the system was already beyond central coordination — villages simply printed what they needed.
Turró catalogues this emission, though surviving examples are genuinely uncommon given the note's purely local circulation radius and the chaos of the postwar period.