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1 Peseta Cecília de Voltregà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cecília de Voltregà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed entirely in red, the note is framed by a decorative border of floral and scrollwork ornaments at top and bottom, with bold geometric diagonal corner blocks carrying the numeral '1' at each corner. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CECILIA DE VOLTREGA' appears in large capital letters across the top, with the denomination 'UNA pesseta' centred in large type below. A four-line redemption clause, a serial number in black, and two manuscript signatures with their respective role titles occupy the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'Imp. Ausetana. - Vich' at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single oval official municipal stamp in blue-black ink, applied off-centre toward the lower middle of the note. The stamp reads 'AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL DE CECILIA DE VOLTREGA' around its circumference and encloses a heraldic tower device at its centre. |
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Cecília de Voltregà is a tiny municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other small Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the withdrawal of metallic coin from circulation in 1936–37. The Consell Municipal — effectively the local wartime administrative body — authorized these notes as a stopgap, not as any assertion of fiscal independence. Imprenta Ausetana in nearby Vic printed for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for a certain family resemblance across the region's emergency issues.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication device, applied individually to each note — meaning unstamped examples exist and are considered incomplete. Turró catalogues this series thoroughly, and the 793 reference places it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal wartime emission record.