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1 Peseta Manlleu, Autos Pous
| Issuer | Manlleu, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the blue letterpress printing and red serial number over a green and brown stippled underprint, with the denomination stated in Catalan and a clarifying legend specifying the voucher's intended use as small change currency aboard the company's line coaches. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA Moneda per facilitar canvi en els cotxes de linia de dita Empresa. SERIE A Nº 0422 (Translation: Currency to facilitate change in the line cars of said Company.) |
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Manlleu is a textile town in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The "Autos Pous" designation is unusual — it identifies a specific local business, likely an automotive or transport firm, as the guarantor or point of redemption rather than the municipal treasury alone. That commercial co-sponsorship of a municipal note is not unheard of in the Catalan series, but it narrows the redemption obligation considerably.
The AL (Allepuz) catalogue reference places this squarely within the vast body of Spanish Civil War local issues, most of which were rendered worthless following Franco's currency unification decrees.