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1 Peseta Cornellà de Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cornellà de Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms — a hunting horn on a vertically lined field — is set within a dotted circular border at centre, printed in blue on a light guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '1' appears in large letterpress type at left and right, with the serial number in the upper-left quadrant. Three signature lines for the Secretari-Interventor, the Alcalde, and the Dipositari are placed below the central vignette, above the printer's imprint at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on a vignette of the main doorway of the Casa de la Vila (Town Hall), rendered after a drawing by the artist Artigas, with the denomination and mandatory-currency legend printed above and below the architectural motif. |
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Cornellà de Llobregat, an industrial municipality on the Llobregat river southwest of Barcelona, issued local emergency currency in 1937 as the Republican zone struggled with a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did the same during the Civil War years, and the notes were produced by whatever printing capacity remained available — in this case, Grafos, a Barcelona firm operating under worker collectivization after July 1936.
Turró catalogues this as #885, placing it firmly within the documented corpus of Catalan municipal paper, though survival rates for these wartime fractional issues vary sharply by town.