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1 Peseta El Papiol
| Issuer | El Papiol, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on thick card stock, framed by a simple single-rule border. A raised clenched fist above a Phrygian cap vignette appears as the central emblematic device, rendered in brown ink. Municipal authority text and mandatory circulation legend are printed in brown lettering within the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT d`EL PAPIOL VAL PER UNA PESSETA De curs obligatori en aquest terme municipal (Translation: City Council of El Papiol Valid for One Peseta Of mandatory course in this municipal term) |
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El Papiol is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, southwest of Barcelona. This note belongs to the massive wave of locally-issued emergency fractional currency that flooded Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain from mid-1936 onward, after the outbreak of the Civil War drained coins from circulation almost overnight. Hundreds of municipalities printed their own paper, often on whatever stock was available — hence the thick card construction here, more practical for small-format pieces that would pass through many hands quickly.
Turró catalogued over two thousand distinct local issues from this period. El Papiol's entry at #1777 places it well within the main body of that documentation.