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1 Peseta Domenys del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Domenys del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre underprint of repeating geometric and floral cartouche motifs covers the entire field, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. Dark teal letterpress text in the centre reads the issuing authority name in graduated type sizes, with the denomination 'Una Pesseta' in the largest display script, followed by the date and a validity clause at the foot. The printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' appears in small type at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE DOMENYS DEL PENEDES PAGARA AL PORTADOR Una Pesseta MAIG DEL 1937 AQUEST BITLLET SERA VALID FINS QUE L'AJUNTAMENT ACORDI RETIRAR-LO. (Translation: The City Council of Domenys del Penedès will pay the bearer One Peseta. May 1937. This banknote will be valid until the City Council agrees to withdraw it from circulation.) |
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Domenys del Penedès is a small municipality in the Baix Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of locally-issued emergency fractional currency — els bitllets municipals — that flooded Republican-held Catalonia from mid-1937 onward. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation, partly a result of silver hoarding and wartime disruption, forced hundreds of town councils to print their own scrip under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Arts Gràfiques Barnadas in nearby El Vendrell printed for several Penedès municipalities during this period, which sometimes makes attribution tricky when printer's marks are absent or worn. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for distinguishing between issues that are otherwise nearly identical in format and typography.