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1 Peseta Cornudella de Montsant
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cornudella de Montsant |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on cream paper within an ornate floral and foliate perimeter border. At left, a vignette of crossed musical instruments — including bugles and a lyre — surmounted by a crowned sacred heart, serving as the local municipal emblem. The denomination '1 PTA.' is printed in large characters at centre, with the issuing authority's name in bold lettering above. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress vignette centred on a plain cream ground, composed of an ornate wicker basket overflowing with roses, foliage, fruits, and floral sprays rendered in a decorative folk-art style. Serial numbers are printed in blue-green ink in vertical orientation on both the left and right margins, flanking the central vignette. |
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Cornudella de Montsant is a small wine-producing municipality in the Priorat region of Tarragona, and this note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues that flooded Catalonia in 1936–37 after the Republic's central government effectively lost control of small-denomination coinage. The silver and bronze had vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and individual ayuntamientos and consells were left to fill the gap themselves, with whatever printing resources were locally available.
Turró catalogues this as #895, placing it within a well-documented but enormous body of Catalan municipal paper. Surviving examples often show heavy handling; these notes circulated intensely within their issuing municipality and rarely travelled far.