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1 Peseta Llorenç del Penedès
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Llorens del Panadès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Llorens del Panadès, enclosed within an oval frame, is positioned to the upper left. The face value 'UNA PESSETA' is printed in large bold letters at centre, above the issue date and two facsimile signature lines. A light guilloche underprint covers the field, and the entire design is enclosed within a braided geometric border with ornamental corner devices. A four-digit serial number appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNA PESSETA TIP. SUGRAÑES-TARRAGONA (Translation: One Peseta — Tipografia Sugrañes, Tarragona) |
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Llorenç del Penedès was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during 1936–37, when the Republic's small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime disruption. These local notes, collectively known as moneda de necessitat, were technically illegal under central government regulations but tolerated out of necessity. The Consell Municipal series from this town is among the more obscure of the Tarragona province emissions.
Turró#1370 is rarely encountered outside regional Catalan collections. Sugrañes of Tarragona printed many such municipal issues during this period, which gives the note a consistent regional character but does little to help survival rates — most were redeemed or destroyed once Republican monetary authority reasserted itself.