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1 Peseta Gavà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gavà (Municipality of Gavà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GAVÀ N.º [serial number] 1 pesseta de curs obligatori a tot el terme municipal. 8 Abril 1937 (Translation: City Council of Gavà / 1 Peseta of mandatory circulation throughout the entire municipal district. / 8 April 1937) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Gavà is a small municipality south of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute. The central government's inability to supply small change forced local councils to print their own — these notes had no legal standing beyond their issuing municipality and were theoretically redeemable only at the town hall that issued them.
Turró catalogues hundreds of these Catalan municipal emissions; #1102 places Gavà's 1 Peseta among the better-documented local issues, though surviving quantities remain modest given the chaotic final years of the Republic.