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1 Peseta Mataró
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mataró (Municipality of Mataró) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Indústries Madriguera Col·lectivitzada, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PESSETA AJUNTAMENT DE MATARÓ Mataró 16 Març 1937 (Translation: 1 Peseta City Council of Mataró Mataró, March 16, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Mataró's wartime municipal notes were produced under one of the more unusual arrangements of the Spanish Civil War economy: Indústries Madriguera had been collectivized under anarcho-syndicalist control by 1937, meaning this note was printed by a worker-managed enterprise operating outside the conventional wage system. The Catalan regional government had authorized municipalities to issue emergency currency to address the collapse of small-denomination coinage, but the actual production chain ran through collectivized workshops answering to union committees rather than to any single employer.
Turró documents this as a single-denomination issue. Mataró, a textile and industrial town north of Barcelona, had the economic infrastructure to sustain such arrangements longer than many smaller municipalities.