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1 Peseta Mura
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mura |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black ink on thick card stock, enclosed within a single rectangular rule border. The issuer name is underlined and the denomination text is set in a larger typeface at centre, with the numeral 1 appearing separately. The overall layout is characteristic of wartime emergency letterpress production with minimal ornamentation. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MURA VAL per UNA Pesseta 1 (Translation: Municipal Council of Mura Voucher for One Peseta) |
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Mura is a tiny municipality in the Bages comarca, and by 1937 its local council — like hundreds of others across Republican Catalonia — was issuing its own emergency paper because the chronic shortage of fractional coinage had effectively paralyzed small transactions. These hyperlocal notes, known collectively as "moneda de paper" or "paper money of the municipalities," were authorized under Generalitat decree but designed and printed entirely at local discretion, which is why a village printer in Manresa, Rubiralta, ends up as the manufacturing source for what amounts to pocket change.
Turró catalogues over 2,000 distinct municipal issues from this period; Mura's single 1 Pesseta entry sits among the rarest of them, given the town's population at the time was well under a thousand.