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1 Peseta Palafrugell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafrugell (Municipality of Palafrugell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a simple typeset layout of nested rectangular frames. The face value '1'00' appears in each of the four corners, and a central text block carries the authorization legend. The design is entirely typographic, without pictorial vignettes or guilloche underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | 1'00 VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el terme municipal de Palafrugell (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipality of Palafrugell) |
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Palafrugell is a small coastal municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and this 1 Peseta note is one of hundreds of emergency paper issues that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the hoarding of metallic coinage created a severe shortage of small change. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipalities to print their own local currency — moneda local — from 1936 onward, and Palafrugell was among the many town councils that complied.
Turró 1740 places it within a well-documented but enormous series. Survival rates vary wildly across municipal issues; smaller towns with limited print runs often produced notes that circulated hard and were rarely preserved.