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1 Peseta Masquefa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Masquefa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 93 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MASQUEFA VAL UNA PESSETA GARANTIDA PER PAPER DE CURS LEGAL De curs obligatori en tot el terme municipal de Masquefa Emissió acordada per l`Ajuntament en sessió del dia 15 d`abril del 1937. Masquefa, 20 abril 1937. (Translation: City Council of Masquefa It is worth One Peseta Guaranteed by legal current paper Compulsory course throughout the Masquefa municipality Issue agreed by the City Council in session on April 15, 1937. Masquefa, April 20, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse on aged cream paper, bearing only a faint circular pink official stamp impression and minor handling marks consistent with circulation use. |
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Masquefa is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, its ayuntament issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's silver and copper coinage essentially vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These locally printed notes — collectively catalogued under the Spanish Civil War emergency issues — were legal only within the issuing municipality, which in a town of Masquefa's scale meant a circulation of a few hundred people at most.
Turró documents over 1,400 distinct municipal issuers for this period. Survival rates vary wildly; smaller runs from obscure towns tend to surface less often simply because fewer were printed to begin with.