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1 Peseta El Vendrell
| Issuer | El Vendrell, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset in black letterpress on white paper, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The heading reads 'Generalitat de Catalunya / Departament d'Assistencia Social' in Gothic and roman typefaces, followed by the issuing purpose inscription in bold Gothic script across the upper field. The denomination '1'00' appears in the upper-left corner, with the bearer clause, place, date, a serial number in the lower-left, and the manuscript signature of El President at lower right; the printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' is set at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse, entirely unprinted save for a large circular municipal dry stamp applied left of centre, bearing the coat of arms of El Vendrell surrounded by the municipality's legend; the stamp impression is lightly embossed into the paper. |
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El Vendrell is a small Catalan town south of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local governments to fill the gap, producing an extraordinary patchwork of hyper-local notes printed by whatever press was available — in this case, Arts Gràfiques Barnadas, a local print shop operating within the town itself.
The official stamp serves as the primary security feature, a common workaround when sophisticated printing wasn't an option. Turró catalogs well over 2,000 such issues, and El Vendrell's entry at #2715 places it deep in that long provincial sequence.