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1 Peseta Empori
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Vila de Empori |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The face is enclosed within a double linear frame in red and dark blue. A panoramic vignette of the town of Empori occupies the background. The text is arranged in multiple lines across the note, stating the issuing authority, denomination, series, and date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | The back is enclosed within a single dark blue linear frame. A vignette of an ancient Greek galley under sail fills the background, evoking the Hellenic origins of the ancient settlement of Emporion. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan across the note. |
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Empori was a tiny municipality on the Costa Brava, and like hundreds of Catalan villages during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-change notes — moneda municipal — to fill the vacuum left by hoarded coins. The Republican government had effectively lost control of fractional currency by mid-1937, forcing municipalities to improvise. Turró catalogs over a thousand such issues; this is entry 927, from a printer in nearby Palamós that handled several neighboring councils' emergency needs.
These hyper-local issues typically circulated within the issuing village only, redeemable at the municipal treasury. By the time Franco's forces consolidated Catalonia in early 1939, most were declared worthless overnight.