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1 Peseta Prat de Comte
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Prat de Compte (Municipality of Prat de Comte) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA AJUNTAMENT DE PRAT DE COMPTE Emissió 1937 Certificat de 1 pesseta No és vàlid sense el segell de l'Ajuntament (Translation: Government of Catalonia City Council of Prat de Compte Issue 1937 1 Peseta certificate It is not valid without the stamp of the City Council) |
| Reverse description | Plain grey card stock bearing a hand-applied circular violet municipal validation stamp reading 'PRAT DE COMPTE' and 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE' around the outer ring, with two small stars as separators, and a smaller concentric inner circle. A simple ornamental scroll border is printed in black along the bottom edge. The stamp, applied inverted relative to the obverse, constitutes the required authentication referenced in the obverse text. |
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Prat de Comte is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona — population in the 1930s barely in the hundreds. Like dozens of similarly sized Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency scrip in 1937 after the Republican government's decree authorizing local currency to address the acute coin shortage that followed the hoarding and melting of silver and copper coinage from 1936 onward.
The stamp security feature on a note this small, from an issuer this local, was essentially symbolic — a council seal pressed onto card stock, the authority of a village trying to keep its market economy functional while a war consumed the country around it.