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1 Peseta Miravet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Miravet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1500 |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the note is laid out in a text-dominant letterpress composition with the issuing authority name in bold uppercase across the top and the denomination UNA PESSETA in a central bordered panel. Floral guilloche vignettes appear on the left border and a rosette pattern ornament in the upper right corner. The date, series, serial number in the lower left, and the signature of the Conseller de Finances appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic vignette of the town of Miravet, with the Ebro river rendered in the foreground and the medieval Miravet Castle, of Arab origin, set upon a hilltop in the background. The local municipal coat of arms, bearing a hand motif, is positioned to the left of the central view, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed above and below. |
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Miravet is a small municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-zone towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency paper money when the central government's currency supply collapsed and fractional coinage vanished from circulation. These local issues — known collectively as the "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — were authorized under a 1936 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, which gave municipal councils emergency powers to issue scrip up to certain denominations.
Miravet's series is among the more obscure provincial issues. Survival rates for single-municipality Catalan wartime scrip are unpredictable — high print runs were not always the rule, and many were redeemed and destroyed when Nationalist forces took the region in early 1939.