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1 Peseta Manresa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Manresa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Manresa occupies the centre background as an underprint. To the left, a vignette of a farmer mowing, and to the right, a metalworker at a foundry forge, together evoking the agricultural and industrial character of the town. The face value and issuing authority are printed in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The face value numeral '1' is set within a circular guilloche medallion, flanked on both sides by laurel branch vignettes and anchored below by a decorative ribbon banner bearing the denomination 'PESSETA'. The entire composition is rendered in orange letterpress on plain paper stock, with the series letter and serial number overprinted in black. |
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Manresa was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities forced to print its own emergency fractional currency after the Civil War disrupted the supply of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain coin circulation in loyalist-held territory pushed this responsibility down to the local level, producing an extraordinary proliferation of locally issued paper. The Consell Municipal's authorization of this note was administrative necessity, not monetary ambition.
Ramon Torra was a well-documented Manresa printer; the fact that the note was produced entirely within the town — designed, printed, and issued locally — makes it traceable in ways that many contemporary Catalan emergencies are not.