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1 Peseta Martorell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Martorell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the municipal coat of arms of Martorell at centre-left, a shield bearing a tower vignette and flanked by laurel branches, with two cannonballs at the base. To the upper left, the numeral "1" appears within a large circular frame. The issuing authority's name and denomination are set in bold letterpress to the right, accompanied by a handwritten serial number, two manuscript signatures (El President and El Caixer), a third signature for L'Interventor, and a circular official ink stamp. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the Pont del Diable (Devil's Bridge), the medieval Gothic-arch bridge spanning the river Llobregat at Martorell, rendered in a simple linear style. The denomination and town name are printed in bold type above the bridge image. |
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Martorell's wartime municipal scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of Republican-zone emergency issues produced after the Spanish Civil War disrupted normal banking and caused acute small-denomination shortages across Catalonia. The Generalitat had authorized local councils to print their own provisional notes in 1937, resulting in hundreds of hyper-local issues — some professionally lithographed, many rudimentary — that rarely circulated beyond the issuing municipality's market.
Turró catalogued over 2,800 such Catalan issues. Martorell, a small town on the Llobregat river southwest of Barcelona, produced this 1 Pesseta alongside companion values. Post-war Francoist authorities declared all Republican municipal scrip void, and most surviving examples came not from circulation but from local collections assembled before the suppression.