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1 Peseta El Vendrell
| Issuer | El Vendrell, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Arts Gràfiques Barnadas, El Vendrell, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament d`EL VENDRELL pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Maig del 1937 Aquest bitllet serà válid fins que l`Ajuntament acordi retirar-lo (Translation: The City Council of El Vendrell will pay the bearer One Peseta May 1937 This banknote will be valid until the City Council agrees to withdraw it) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-brown on a plain ground, with the large numeral '1' set centrally within a bold geometric dot-matrix vignette composed of intersecting rectangular and diagonal dot-pattern fields. The denomination legend appears below the numeral, with the printer's imprint at the bottom margin and a partial red circular official stamp at lower right. |
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El Vendrell is a small Catalan town south of Barcelona, and like hundreds of other municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republic's coin supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitions. These local issues — known collectively as "moneda local de necessitat" — were authorized under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree and printed by whatever press happened to be available in town. In this case, Arts Gràfiques Barnadas was local to El Vendrell itself, which is relatively uncommon; many smaller municipalities had to send their orders elsewhere.
Turró catalogues over three thousand such municipal emissions, and survivorship is wildly uneven — some towns printed in tiny quantities, others in excess of actual need.