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1 Peseta El Cirerer del Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Cirerer del Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Enclosed within a typographic decorative border, the obverse presents the quartered coat of arms of Catalonia at left, accompanied by a vignette of a cherry tree — an heraldic allusion to the municipality's name and its tradition of cherry cultivation. The face value and the full legend of the issuing authority are set in letterpress across the central and lower fields. The overall composition is characteristic of Civil War-era Catalan municipal emergency issues produced by letterpress typography. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'EL CIRERER DEL LLOBREGAT 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of El Cirerer del Llobregat 1 Peseta) |
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El Cirerer del Llobregat is among the smallest municipalities to have issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone's acute shortage of metallic coinage prompted thousands of Catalan town councils to print their own fractional currency under decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Turró catalogues hundreds of these local emissions, but many — particularly from tiny ajuntaments with limited print runs — survive in genuinely small numbers.
The printer, C.A.M., handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions out of Barcelona, which gives this note its relatively clean typographic execution compared to notes run off on improvised local presses.