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1 Peseta Gósol
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gósol (Municipality of Gósol) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan coat of arms appears at left, with a vignette of the town of Gósol set against the backdrop of Mount Pedraforca in the background. The overall composition is typical of the austere wartime emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA A reintegrar per la Caixa Municipal (Translation: 1 Peseta To be reimbursed by the Municipal Fund) |
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Gósol is a small mountain village in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and its decision to issue local emergency currency in 1937 reflects the near-total breakdown of small-denomination coinage circulation during the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate fractional currency forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many of them tiny — to print their own paper money, legally sanctioned under a June 1937 decree by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Imprenta Jaume Molins in Berga served as the regional printer for several of these local issues, giving notes from this cluster a shared typographic character despite being issued by entirely separate municipalities. Gósol's population at the time was well under five hundred people.