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1 Peseta Premià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Premià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 108 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a geometric underprint of diagonal radiating bands converging at a central circular guilloche motif, printed in olive-green on white paper. The issuing authority's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PREMIÀ' appears in large serif capitals along the top, separated from the body by a ruled double-line border with a central ornament. The denomination numeral '1' and the word 'pesseta' are set to the lower left within the guilloche, while two manuscript signatures — those of the President and the Treasurer — appear to the right, accompanied by their respective printed titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PREMIÀ 1 pesseta Curs local obligatori. Maig del 1937 El President, El Tresorer, (Translation: Municipal Council of Premià 1 Peseta Mandatory local currency. May 1937 The President, The Treasurer,) |
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One of hundreds of wartime emergency notes — known collectively as "paper de guerra" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's collapse of the conventional money supply prompted local councils to print their own fractional currency. Premià de Mar's Consell Municipal was among the smaller issuers, and the Turró catalogue documents only a handful of surviving denominations from this locality.
Printing was handled locally by Imprenta Greco A.G., a small commercial press rather than a specialist security printer, which is exactly what you'd expect from a coastal town of a few thousand inhabitants scrambling to keep market transactions functional in 1937.