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1 Peseta Malgrat
| Issuer | Malgrat, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1405 |
| Obverse description | Municipal coat of arms positioned to the left, alongside a vignette reproducing the Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture, framed by encircling olive and oak branches. The overall composition is rendered in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sèrie A. No [serial number] Bitllet de curs obligatori a Malgrat (Translation: Mandatory course banknote in Malgrat) |
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Malgrat de Mar, a small coastal town in Barcelona province, issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War under the authority of its local council — one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that printed their own fractional currency after the Republican government's coin shortage left small-denomination transactions effectively impossible. These ajuntament-issued notes were a practical fix, not a political statement, though the timing placed them squarely within the anarchist and socialist administrative experiments that briefly controlled much of Catalonia.
Turró catalogues this series carefully precisely because so many municipal emissions from 1936–1938 were produced in tiny quantities and had circulation lives measured in months before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.