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1 Peseta Palamós
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palamós (Municipality of Palamós) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1745 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of Hercules kneeling and supporting the circular coat of arms of the city of Palamós. Denomination numeral '1' appears to the right, with the date of issue and redemption clause inscribed across the note in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | Allegorical standing female figure to the left with a cogwheel, set against a background vignette of industrial factory buildings with smoking chimneys and a seaport scene with a moored vessel, evoking the maritime and industrial character of Palamós. The denomination numeral '1' appears to the right, with the authorizing legend in Catalan across the note. |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded Catalonia between 1936 and 1939 after the Republic's central banking system effectively collapsed at the local level following the military uprising. Palamós, a small fishing and cork-industry town on the Costa Brava, issued its own fractional paper because silver and bronze coinage had been hoarded out of existence almost immediately after July 1936.
Turró catalogued over two thousand of these Catalan municipal emissions. The sheer volume of issuers — many with print runs in the hundreds — means individual survivorship is uneven and often poorly documented.