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1 Peseta Castellsarroca
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellsarroca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Castellsarroca is centered on the face of the note, set within an overall composition framed by a geometric ornamental border executed in letterpress. The denomination numeral '1' appears in the upper corners, with the full text of the issuing authority and legal tender declaration arranged around the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CASTELLSARROCA UNA PESSETA DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE CASTELLSARROCA (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellsarroca One Peseta of mandatory course in all the Municipal term of Castellsarroca) |
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Castellsarroca is a tiny municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency after the 1936 breakdown in coin supply — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted almost immediately following the July uprising. The Generalitat de Catalunya nominally oversaw these local emissions but could not adequately supply small denomination coinage, leaving ajuntaments and consells to fill the gap themselves.
The printer, C.A.M., handled a considerable volume of these municipal issues out of Barcelona, which accounts for the relatively clean typography compared to notes run off on local flatbed presses. Turró catalogues this as #761.