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1 Peseta Castelló d'Empúries
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castelló d'Empúries |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the coat of arms of Castelló d'Empúries, bearing an image of the Gothic façade of the Church of Santa Maria — a landmark of Romanesque-Gothic architecture known as the Cathedral of the Empordà. The arms are framed by printed legends and a simple border typical of wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES Val per UNA pesseta abril 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Castelló d'Empúries Valid for One Peseta April 1937) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local councils scrambling to keep markets functional. Castelló d'Empúries, a small medieval town in the Alt Empordà comarca, issued its own fractional currency under the authority granted to local bodies by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1937.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipals, and 745 places this note among the lesser-issued series — print runs for most Alt Empordà towns were small, and post-war destruction was thorough.