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1 Peseta Palafolls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafolls (Municipality of Palafolls) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Red-violet letterpress text on a pink stippled and striped underprint, with the municipal coat of arms of Palafolls in the upper left corner. The note carries the full authorising text of the Ajuntament, citing the council resolution of 29 May 1937, and bears the face value numeral '1' at left. The overall layout is utilitarian, consistent with Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Pta. IMP. MONTALT · MALGRAT (Translation: 1 Peseta / Printed by Montalt, Malgrat) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by issuing their own emergency paper currency, the so-called "moneda local," under a framework loosely authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Palafolls, a small municipality in the Maresme comarca, was among them.
Imprenta Montalt in nearby Malgrat handled production for several of these local issues, which kept print costs low and turnaround fast. These municipal notes had no legal standing outside their issuing town and were redeemable only while the issuing authority remained solvent — which, for many, did not outlast 1939.