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1 Peseta El Bruc
| Issuer | Ajuntament del Bruch (Municipality of El Bruc) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured cardstock with all text and border printed in blue by letterpress. A rectangular guilloche-style border composed of repeating square and rosette ornamental units frames the entire face, with corner medallions of interlocking geometric motifs. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DEL BRUCH' appears in the upper portion in bold capitals, with the denomination 'VAL 1 PTA.' set in large display type below. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DEL BRUCH VAL 1 PTA. (Translation: City Council of El Bruc Voucher 1 Peseta) |
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El Bruc issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own scrip. These local issues — collectively catalogued under the "billetes de necesidad" — were legal within their issuing municipality but worthless the moment you crossed into the next town.
Turró 538 is one of the more obscure entries in that Catalan municipal series. El Bruc's total wartime scrip output was tiny, and cardboard notes at this weight and size suffered badly from handling — attrition was high.