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1 Peseta Manresa; Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia.
| Issuer | Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia., Manresa |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#3174 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on plain paper with a yellow underprint logo in the centre. A single-line rectangular border frames the face. The issuer name, denomination, place of issue, expiry date, and serial number are arranged in typeset lines, with the printer's imprint at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain uncoated paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the hoarding of metallic currency created severe shortages of small-denomination coins across Republican-held territory. Catalonia saw an explosion of locally issued paper substitutes — moneda de necessitat — produced by municipalities, cooperatives, trade unions, and individual businesses. Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia. was a hardware merchant, not a financial institution, yet the Republican framework briefly legitimized such issues as functional local scrip.
Imprenta Rubiralta was a Manresa print shop responsible for several of these emergency issues, which accounts for the family resemblance across different Manresa issuers from the same period. AL#3174 places this within Arenys de Mar cataloguer Albert Llordén's exhaustive classification of Catalan Civil War necessitat notes — a reference system that remains the standard for the series.