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1 Peseta La Garriga
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Garriga (Municipality of La Garriga) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA GARRIGA abonará al portador UNA PESSETA L'Alcalde, El Conseller de Finances, (Translation: City Council of La Garriga will pay the bearer One Peseta. The Mayor, The Finance Councillor,) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress, enclosed within the same rectangular border of fine vertical dash lines as the obverse. The municipal coat of arms is positioned to the left, with the issuer's name and a voucher legend to the right, together with the numeral and written denomination. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination supply chain forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency paper money — the so-called "moneda local." La Garriga, a small thermal spa town northeast of Barcelona in the Vallès Oriental, was among them. These municipal emissions were authorized under a 1937 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya and were legally valid only within each issuing municipality's boundaries.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for this vast and chaotic series. Finding a specific municipal note in collectable condition is often harder than it sounds — many circulated heavily in a matter of months before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.