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1 Peseta Passanant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Passanant (Municipality of Passanant) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1783 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PASSANANT CERTIFICAT DE PLATA UNA PESSETA D'ÚS FORÇÓS SOLAMENT A PASSANANT MARÇ DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Passanant Silver Certificate One Pesseta Of mandatory use only in Passanant March, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on unadorned cream paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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One of thousands of emergency local issues produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of normal monetary supply forced Catalan municipalities to print their own fractional currency. Passanant is a tiny village in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, Tarragona — its wartime population was well under a thousand. The practical circulation of this note would have been almost entirely local and almost entirely brief.
Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Spanish Civil War municipal issues; that Passanant's single known type received its own number speaks to how systematically these scraps were eventually documented, decades after most were discarded.