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1 Peseta Pont d'Armentera
| Issuer | El Pont d'Armentera, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 98 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in green ink over an ochre geometric underprint, with ornamental guilloche framing along the perimeter. The central text block carries the full municipal authority legend and denomination in Catalan, with the issuing date of the municipal agreement. The overall layout is typographic in character, without figurative vignettes. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Pont d'Armentera La Dipositaria Municipal pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Acord del 7 de Setembre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Pont d'Armentera The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer One Peseta Agreement of 7 September 1937) |
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El Pont d'Armentera is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and this note is a product of the extraordinary monetary fragmentation that gripped Republican Catalonia during the Civil War. The Generalitat's decree of June 1937 formally authorized local councils to issue their own emergency currency — the *moneda local* — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage hoarded or melted down in the war's early years.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona printed for numerous municipalities across the province, often recycling similar layouts with only the issuing authority changed. The Turró catalogue remains the essential reference for distinguishing genuine local issues from the sea of near-identical provincial pieces.