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1 Peseta El Papiol
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Papiol |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'EL PAPIOL 1 / UNA PESSETA / 1 Segons acord del 6 Maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of El Papiol 1 / One Peseta / 1 By agreement of May 6, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Lower-left vignette of a Phrygian cap surmounting a raised fist, symbolising the Republican cause, set against a background view of the geological rock formation known as Les Escletxes. The denomination and issuing municipality legend appears across the note face. |
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El Papiol is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's collapse of normal monetary supply chains in 1936–37. The Secretariat Català printing house in Barcelona produced notes for numerous municipalities simultaneously, which accounts for the family resemblance across many of these local emissions — same paper stock, similar typographic conventions, different town names stamped or printed across the face.
Turró catalogues this as a single-type emission, suggesting El Papiol issued no complementary denominations under this authority.