Catalog
1 Peseta L'Escala
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de L'Escala |
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| Printer | Indústries Litogràfiques, Girona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de L`Escala 1 Pesseta (Translation: Municipal Council of L`Escala 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of an open book crossed with two ears of wheat, symbolising learning and agriculture, rendered in a simple lithographic style consistent with wartime local issues. The issuer's name 'Consell Municipal L'Escala' is inscribed at the top, with the denomination numeral '1' in a circular cartouche at lower left and 'Pta' in a matching cartouche at lower right. A repeating ornamental border frames the entire face. |
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L'Escala was a small fishing town on the Costa Brava, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's central banking system failed to supply adequate small-denomination coinage. The Consell Municipal series — authorized under Generalitat de Catalunya decree — represents one of the more obscure corners of the 1936–37 local currency explosion, with many issues surviving only in tiny quantities because the towns themselves were small and production runs were correspondingly limited.
Printed by Indústries Litogràfiques in Girona, which handled a number of regional municipal issues during this period. Turró catalogues this as #930.