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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 | Black letterpress text on a yellow underprint with a central vignette of the Portal del Pardo, a medieval tower gateway, flanked by the bell tower of the Church of Sant Salvador in the background and the municipal coat of arms to the left. At the lower portion, a decorative motif of wheat stalks with a sickle and bunches of grapes frames the composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT D'EL VENDRELL pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Agost del 1937 (Translation: The City Council of El Vendrell will pay the bearer One Peseta August 1937) |
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El Vendrell was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that resorted to printing their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War, when the hoarding of coins — silver and copper alike — created acute shortages of small change across the Republican zone. This peseta was produced locally by Barnadas, a printer operating in the town itself, which was unusual enough; most comparable municipalities contracted out to Barcelona firms. The engraver credit to Borrull appears on the plate, though little is documented about this individual beyond similar Civil War-era municipal work.