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1 Peseta Granollers
| Issuer | Granollers, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Gràfiques Unificades, Granollers, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a worker and a peasant clasping hands above the crowned coat of arms of Catalonia, with factory silhouettes in the background and a cornucopia overflowing with fruits and agricultural produce at lower right. The denomination numeral appears at upper right, with the issuer name arched across the top. The design is rendered in a graphic letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a farmer guiding a pair of oxen across a ploughed hillside, a radiant rising sun with bold rays at upper left illuminating the rural scene. To the right, the denomination "1 pesseta" is set within a circular frame above the series designation "SERIE A". The lower portion carries the promise-to-pay legend and the date of issue, with manuscript signatures of the president and cashier flanking a four-digit serial number. |
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Granollers issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War because the Republican government's monetary system had effectively collapsed at the local level — silver and copper had disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936, hoarded or melted, leaving small transactions unworkable. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own notes in response, and Granollers was among the more prolific. Gràfiques Unificades, the printer here, was itself a product of the war: a collectivized printing operation run under CNT-FAO syndical control.
The cosigner title "el coixer" — the cashier, in Catalan orthography of the period — reflects the administrative Catalanization common to Republican municipal documents after 1936.