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1 Peseta Godall
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Godall |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on buff-coloured card stock, with the denomination set in large bold black letterpress type dominating the centre. An oval municipal validation stamp of the Consell Municipal de Godall is overlaid across the face value, serving as an authentication device in lieu of formal security printing. |
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| Protection description | Oval municipal ink stamp of the Consell Municipal de Godall applied to the reverse as a validation mark |
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| Comments |
Godall is a village in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona province — population in the 1930s barely cresting a few hundred — yet its municipal council issued emergency paper money like dozens of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War. The Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation forced even the smallest ajuntaments to print their own. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona supplied many of these local issues across the province, which is why the print quality on Godall notes tends to be more consistent than truly improvised wartime production might suggest.
The sole security feature is a municipal stamp applied by hand at issue. Forgery was never really the concern — the notes were usable only within the village itself.