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1 Peseta Mataró
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mataró (Municipality of Mataró) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on an ochre geometric framework, with the face value numeral set against the ochre underprint background. The issuing authority and denomination inscriptions are arranged within a bold rectangular border of geometric ornamental design. Date and place of issue appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned paper with a large central guilloche underprint in the form of an oval cloud-like lobe pattern, within which the numeral '1' is rendered in an ornate spiral-detailed typeface. A thin rectangular border frames the entire reverse, leaving wide unprinted margins. |
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One of thousands of locally issued emergency notes printed during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage forced municipalities across Catalonia to produce their own paper currency. Mataró's issue was printed by a local press — Arts Gràfiques Vilà operated within the town itself — making this a genuinely hyperlocal production, from design to distribution, without passing through any regional or national authority.
The Turró catalog documents well over a thousand such municipal issues from the 1936–1939 period. Most circulated briefly and intensely before being rendered worthless following Franco's victory and the subsequent currency unification.