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1 Peseta Jorba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Jorba |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in teal-blue letterpress print, entirely typographic in composition. A border of small dashed squares runs the full perimeter of the note, enclosing the issuing authority name in a stylized serif typeface at the top, with the denomination stated in two lines of progressively larger capital lettering below. A faint circular official stamp impression is visible at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse, consisting of bare off-white card stock with no text, vignette, or any other design element. |
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Jorba is a tiny municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War. These local notes — known collectively as paper moneda de necessitat — flooded Catalonia from 1936 onward when coin hoarding and metal requisitioning for the war effort gutted everyday small-denomination circulation. The Ajuntament de Jorba almost certainly printed this locally, on whatever card stock was available, with no central oversight of design or quality control.
Turró's catalog documents over a thousand such issuers; Jorba's entry at #1282 places it well into the middle of that sprawling, chaotic ecosystem of municipal scrip.