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1 Peseta Palau-sacosta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Palau Sacosta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1760 |
| Obverse description | Black and brown letterpress on plain paper, with a double-line rectangular border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears as a vignette at left, flanked by the issuing authority's name and the promise-to-pay text in Catalan. The denomination and date of issue, 15 May 1937, are set in bold type within the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper, with a landscape vignette after a painting by the Olot School artist Joaquim Vayreda occupying the background. The denomination and a brief legal disclaimer in Catalan are printed over the vignette in bold type. |
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Palau Sacosta was a small municipality immediately adjacent to Girona — so close it was formally annexed into the city in 1940. During the Civil War, like hundreds of Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency after the Republic's silver and bronze coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37, hoarded or melted down as the war economy collapsed conventional monetary supply.
Turró's catalog documents these Catalan municipal emissions exhaustively; #1760 places this note among the more obscure local issues, from a council that would cease to exist within three years of printing it.