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1 Peseta Pobla de Claramunt
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Pobla de Claramunt |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a patterned underprint, the obverse carries a central agricultural vignette comprising a sheaf of wheat ears flanked by a sickle to the left and bunches of grapes to the right, symbolising the primary produce of the municipality. The municipal obligation text in Catalan is set in bold letterpress within a central panel, incorporating the numeral '1' and the spelled-out denomination 'UNA PESSETA'. The entire design is contained within a simple ruled border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a circular vignette of the coat of arms of Catalonia, wreathed with decorative foliage, above which Claramunt Castle is rendered on its rocky outcrop with its distinctive watchtower serving as the heraldic emblem of the issuing municipality. The denomination and mandatory-circulation legend are set in bold letterpress around the central vignette. |
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La Pobla de Claramunt is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper currency during the Spanish Civil War when the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight. These municipal notes — known collectively as "moneda local de guerra" — were produced in enormous variety across Catalonia between 1936 and 1939, with quality ranging widely depending on what printer a given ajuntament could access.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant number of these small-municipality commissions out of Barcelona, which accounts for the relatively clean typography despite the wartime circumstances.