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1 Peseta La Selva del Camp
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Selva del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency note printed in red and black ink, with a decorative border composed of repeating red square elements forming a rectangular frame. The municipal coat of arms of La Selva del Camp appears in the upper left corner, and the denomination and issuing authority text is arranged in multiple registers across the face of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. L`AJUNTAMENT de LA SELVA reconeix a favor del portador UNA Pesseta La Selva del Camp / Gener del 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta The City Council of La Selva Recognizes in favor of the bearer One Peseta La Selva del Camp / January 1937) |
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La Selva del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely. These ajuntament-issued notes — paper currency authorized at the local government level — were a practical response to a genuine monetary vacuum, not a political gesture. Tens of millions of such notes were produced across Republican-controlled territory between 1936 and 1939.
Turró catalogued over 2,700 distinct issues; this note's reference number places it well into that count.