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1 Peseta Mas de Barberans
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mas de Barberans |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MAS DE BARBERANS VAL PER Una Pesseta de curs legal a n'aquesta localitat. (Translation: Municipal Council of Mas de Barberans Valid for One Peseta of legal tender in this locality.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 27 AGO 1937 CONSELL MUNICIPAL - MAS DE BARBERANS (MONTSIA) (Translation: 27 August 1937 Municipal Council - Mas de Barberans (Montsia)) |
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Mas de Barberans is a small municipality in the Tarragona province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes locales* framework, were produced by municipal councils operating with near-total monetary autonomy during the Republican zone's administrative fragmentation.
The thick card stock was a pragmatic response to printing constraints and the need for durability in notes intended for very short-range, high-frequency local exchange. Turró 1454 is among the scarcer Tarragona municipal emissions.