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1 Peseta Colldejou
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Colldejou |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain note printed in black letterpress on thick card stock, with the coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya positioned to the left. The text is arranged in a simple typeset layout across the face of the note, stating the issuing authority, denomination, and purpose of issue. No ornamental vignette or guilloche border is present, reflecting the austere emergency production typical of Catalan municipal issues of the Civil War period. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of cream-coloured card stock, with a violet rubber stamp impression enclosed within an octagonal frame, applied as a validation mark. The stamp reads 'Consell Municipal de Colldejou' in three lines, serving as the sole authenticating device on this side. |
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Colldejou is a village in the Camp de Tarragona comarca with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities of similarly modest scale, its town council issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper having rapidly disappeared from circulation after July 1936. These hyper-local issues were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework but designed, printed, and distributed entirely at the municipal level, often by local printers with no specialist banknote experience.
Turró catalogues this as #855, placing it within the dense sequence of Camp de Tarragona municipal issues. Surviving examples tend to show heavy handling — small councils rarely held reserves — but the thick card stock gave the notes more physical durability than the flimsy paper used elsewhere.