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1 Peseta Esplugues
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Esplugues de Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ESPLUGUES La Caixa Municipal reintegrarà al portador una pesseta EMISSIÓ 1937 (Translation: City Council of Esplugues The Municipal Savings Fund will reimburse the bearer One Peseta Issue 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed within a wide decorative geometric border printed in red, with a continuous wavy-line guilloche underprint in pale green covering the entire field. To the left, the numeral "1" appears within a circular cartouche inscribed "pta"; to the right, the denomination in script lettering reads "Una pesseta" across two lines. |
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One of several hundred municipal emergency notes (referred to collectively as "moneda de necessitat" or "guerra civil" issues) printed during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coin supply forced Catalan municipalities to produce their own fractional currency. Esplugues de Llobregat, a small industrial town immediately southwest of Barcelona, contracted Imprenta Avant — an Barcelona press with anarcho-syndicalist ties during the period — to produce this series.
Turró's catalog remains the standard reference for these Catalan municipal issues, documenting over a thousand distinct types. This note's survival rate is modest; most circulated hard in a wartime local economy before the Nationalist victory in early 1939 rendered them worthless.