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1 Peseta Masdenverge

Issuer Consell Municipal de Masdenverge
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Reference(s) Turró#1463
Obverse description Plain typeset note printed in black letterpress on white paper within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuer's name is set in bold type at the top, followed by the bearer clause in smaller type, with the large numeral '1' and denomination 'pesseta' centered in the lower half. A manuscript serial number is hand-inscribed in the lower right area.
Obverse lettering Consell Municipal de Masdenverge Aquesta Dipositaria reconeix al PORTADOR la quantitat de 1 pesseta NÚM.
(Translation: Municipal Council of Masdenverge This Depository recognizes to the bearer the amount of 1 Peseta No.)
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Masdenverge is a small municipality in the Montsià comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small change evaporated from circulation after 1936. These municipal notes — known collectively as paper moneda local — were produced under the authority of the Generalitat's decree permitting local councils to print their own emergency issues, a measure born of necessity when silver and copper coinage was hoarded or melted almost immediately after the war began.

Turró catalogues this as #1463, placing it within a well-documented but vast series. Surviving examples from villages this size are genuinely scarce — print runs were small and redemption after the war was either chaotic or simply never completed.

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