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1 Peseta Just Desvern
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Just Desvern |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan coat of arms (four red bars on gold) is positioned in the upper left corner, with floral vignette decorations occupying the lower right. The central text block carries the full municipal authorization legend in Catalan, printed in letterpress, framing the denomination numeral '1' to the left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 L'AJUNTAMENT DE JUST DESVERN RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE UNA PESSETA EN VIRTUT D'ACORD MUNICIPAL JUST DESVERN, MAIG 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Just Desvern recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta by virtue of a municipal agreement. Just Desvern, May 1937) |
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Just Desvern is a small municipality on the immediate southwestern outskirts of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's metallic coinage essentially vanished from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to print low-denomination notes to fill the gap, which is why so many of these township issues exist — and why they vary so wildly in print quality and survival rates.
El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions from Barcelona, which gives this note a cleaner production quality than many comparable rural issues. Turró 1297 is among the more traceable of the Just Desvern pieces precisely because of that printer provenance.