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1 Peseta Cornudella de Montsant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cornudella de Montsant |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CORNUDELLA DE MONTSANT VAL PER UNA PESSETA Validesa durant l`any 1937. (Translation: City Council of Cornudella de Montsant Voucher for One Peseta Validity during the year 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper field enclosed within a uniform orange letterpress border composed of a double scalloped and dotted decorative frame. The series designation is centred at the top, underlined and flanked by small floral ornaments, with the serial number printed in a larger typeface in the centre of the field, followed by an asterisk device. |
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Cornudella de Montsant is a small municipality in the Priorat comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued local emergency currency in 1937 when the Republican government's coinage supply collapsed almost entirely. These municipal notes — collectively called "billetes locales" or, in Catalan, "moneda local" — were produced under a decree that permitted local authorities to issue scrip up to specific limits, partly to prevent hoarding of metallic currency.
Turró catalogues over 1,400 distinct issues from this period. The Cornudella de Montsant series is among the less documented, with surviving examples infrequently encountered outside regional Catalan collections.