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1 Peseta Marçà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Marçà |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark brown on orange card stock, the obverse centres the Catalan quartered shield — charged with four vertical bars — as the principal vignette at upper centre. The issuer's name in serif capitals is set below, separated from the denomination legend by a horizontal rule of repeated floral ornaments. The value statement is rendered in large, widely spaced capitals across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely unprinted on the orange card stock, save for a single hand-applied oval municipal dry stamp impressed at centre, its faint relief impression serving as the sole validation mark against the plain background. |
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Marçà is a small municipality in the Priorat comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of thousands of tiny-denomination emergency issues produced by Spanish Republican councils during the Civil War after the Nationalist uprising disrupted the national coin supply in 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local bodies to issue their own fractional currency, which is why notes from villages of a few hundred inhabitants exist at all. Imprenta Solé of Tarragona printed for numerous councils across the province, and the official stamp was the primary — often only — anti-counterfeiting measure applied.