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1 Peseta Constantí
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Constantí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan four-bars coat of arms appears in the upper left corner, with the entire face rendered in pink letterpress with geometric ornamental designs forming a decorative underprint. The principal text block occupies the centre, stating the issuing authority and promise to pay, dated 20 April 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PESSETA CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CONSTANTÍ Aquesta Dipositaria pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Constantí 20 d'Abril del 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Constantí This depositary will pay the bearer One Peseta Constantí, April 20, 1937) |
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Constantí is a small municipality a few kilometers north of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's Decree of 21 May 1937 formalized what many municipalities were already doing informally. The national coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — leaving small transactions impossible without local substitutes.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand of these municipal emissions, and the Constantí peseta is among the less frequently encountered examples, consistent with a small population base and correspondingly limited print run.