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1 Peseta Collbató
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Collbató |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Collbató is centred within a panoramic vignette of the town set against the Montserrat massif in the background. Denomination and issuing authority appear in letterpress across the upper and lower registers. A reimbursement notice along the lower margin specifies a redemption deadline of 1 June 1938. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA. UNA PESSETA Curs forçós a la localitat en substitució de moneda fraccionària. A canviar a la Caixa Municipal a la seva presentació. (Translation: 1 Peseta One Peseta Mandatory course in the locality in substitution of fractional currency. To be changed at the Caixa Municipal upon presentation.) |
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Collbató is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorised local authorities to plug the catastrophic coin shortage caused by hoarding and wartime disruption. The Ajuntament contracted Gràfiques Pere Calmell — a Barcelona commercial printer with no particular specialisation in security printing — which was entirely typical of how these emergency emissions were handled: utility over sophistication.
Turró catalogues this as #852, placing it firmly within the dense Catalan municipal series. Most Collbató notes were redeemed or destroyed after the Nationalist takeover of the region in early 1939.