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1 Peseta Pinedes del Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pinedes del Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on a greenish-blue underprint with geometric patterns and a double-line perimeter frame, the text printed in orange. The municipal coat of arms of Pinedes del Llobregat appears as a vignette to the left, with the issuing authority's name and the obligation to pay the bearer one peseta inscribed in Catalan across the central field. Issue and agreement dates of May 1937 are stated, along with the declaration of mandatory local currency status. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT - PINEDES DEL LLOBREGAT pagarà al portador la quantitat d'UNA PESSETA segons acord del 22 de maig del 1937. Pinedes del Llobregat, el 25 de maig del 1937 De curs local obligatori. (Translation: City Council - Pinedes del Llobregat will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta according to agreement of May 22, 1937. Pinedes del Llobregat, May 25, 1937. Of mandatory local course.) |
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Pinedes del Llobregat is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government had authorized local emergency emission, but oversight was loose — quality, design, and even denominations varied wildly from one town to the next.
The printer, Imprenta El Secretariat Català, was a Barcelona house with Catalanist affiliations, active in producing both political material and these municipal vales during the war years. Turró catalogues over two thousand distinct local issues from this period; #1829 places this note well into the long tail of small-municipality emissions.