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1 Peseta Esparreguera
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Esparreguera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ESPARREGUERA Emissió en substitució moneda fraccionària Garantida per dipòsit de Bitllets del "Banco de España" VAL - 1 - UNA PESSETA CURS FORÇÓS EN LA LOCALITAT Març 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Esparreguera Issue in replacement of fractional currency Guaranteed by deposit of "Banco de España" banknotes Voucher - 1 - One Peseta Forced course in the locality March 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 pta. Tot intent falsificatiu serà castigat amb sancions revolucionàries (Translation: 1 Peseta Any forgery attempt will be punished with revolutionary sanctions) |
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Esparreguera is a small Catalan town southwest of Barcelona, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorised local councils to print fractional currency to address a severe shortage of coin. The Consell Municipal — by that point operating under anarcho-syndicalist influence, as was much of the surrounding comarca — contracted Imprenta Bas in nearby Igualada, a print shop that produced notes for several local authorities in the Anoia region during this period.
Turró catalogues this as #932. Municipal issues from towns this size were printed in small quantities and circulated only locally, often for weeks or months before being withdrawn and rarely preserved.