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1 Peseta Esparreguera
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Esparreguera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Esparreguera occupies the central vignette, flanked by ornamental borders with fruit motifs and framed by lateral guilloche panels with geometric star patterns. The overall layout follows a symmetrical letterpress composition with the denomination and issuing authority legends arranged around the central arms. The design reflects the modest typographic production typical of Spanish Civil War-era emergency municipal notes. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels: two flanking columns of dense dark-blue guilloche work composed of interlocking geometric star and wave motifs, enclosing a plain cream central field. The denomination '1 PTA. 1' appears in bold italic script at both the top and bottom of the central panel, with the mandatory redemption notice set in letterpress between them. A faint circular underprint is visible in the centre of the text field. |
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Esparreguera is a small town in the Anoia comarca, west of Barcelona, and this note is a product of the anarchic monetary fragmentation that gripped Republican Catalonia during the Civil War. With the peseta supply from Madrid unreliable and distrusted, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including ones far smaller than Esparreguera — issued their own emergency paper under the authority of their local councils. The legal basis was a Generalitat decree of July 1937, though many towns had already begun printing before formal authorization existed.
Imprenta Bas in Igualada printed for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which occasionally causes attribution confusion among collectors. Turró's catalog remains the essential reference for untangling them.