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1 Peseta Palafrugell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafrugell (Municipality of Palafrugell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink on plain paper, with the municipal coat of arms of Palafrugell serving as a central underprint motif. The face carries multi-line text arranged within a simple ruled border, setting out the issuing authority, denomination, and conditions of redemption. A serial control number appears alongside the date of August 1937. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA VAL AUTORITZAT PER A CIRCULAR LLIUREMENT PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE PALAFRUGELL (Translation: 1 Peseta Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipality of Palafrugell) |
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Palafrugell's 1 Peseta note is one of thousands of local emergency issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage left towns effectively fending for themselves. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized this patchwork of local paper in 1937, and by mid-war nearly every town of any size had printed its own.
Turró catalogues these exhaustively precisely because so many were printed in tiny quantities and quietly forgotten after the war. Survival rates vary sharply by municipality — some issues are genuinely scarce, others flooded the local market and survived in quantity.