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1 Peseta Martorelles de Baix
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Martorelles de Baix |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on cream-colored card stock, the obverse bears the issuing authority legend at the top, above a bold double-ruled rectangular frame enclosing the denomination in large capital letterpress type. Below the frame, two manuscript signatures appear under their respective titles L'ALCALDE and EL DEPOSITARI, accompanied by a faint violet municipality stamp at center. |
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| Reverse lettering | En sessió celebrada per aquest Ajuntament el dia 19 de maig del 1937, acordà, degut a la manca en aquest poble de moneda fraccionària per atendre les imperioses necessitats del retorn de canvis, la creació de 2.000 vals-moneda de 1 pta. i 500 de 50 cènts., convenientment avalats i garantitzats pel Municipi. (Translation: In a session held by this City Council on May 19, 1937, it agreed, due to the lack of fractional currency in this town to meet the urgent needs of making change, the creation of 2,000 money-vouchers of 1 Peseta and 500 of 50 Centimos, duly endorsed and guaranteed by the Municipality.) |
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Martorelles de Baix is a small municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish Republican towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the withdrawal of metallic coin from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya had formally authorized municipal issues in 1937, which is why this note exists at all — local commerce had ground to a halt without small change.
Turró catalogues this as a single known type for the municipality. The thick card stock was a practical choice; paper-thin issues from smaller ajuntaments tended to deteriorate rapidly in daily use.