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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 | Plain cream stock printed entirely in orange by letterpress. The issuer's name in bold serif capitals occupies the upper portion, separated from the face value text by a horizontal rule interrupted by three solid filled rectangles at left, centre, and right. The denomination legend is set in two lines of spaced capitals in the lower half of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de la Selva del Camp VAL per UNA pesseta (Translation: City Council of La Selva del Camp Valid for One Peseta) |
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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, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply vanished in the chaos. The Republican government's inability to supply small change in sufficient quantity forced local authorities to improvise, producing what collectors now classify under the broad "billetes de necesidad" umbrella.
The official stamp is the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, applied by hand at the town hall. Given the tiny issuing population and purely local validity, surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.