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1 Peseta Premià de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Premià de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a farmer sowing in the foreground, set against a background of industrial factories with smoking chimneys and a sailboat whose sail bears the Catalan four-bar emblem, collectively evoking the town's agricultural, industrial, and maritime character. The denomination and issuing authority appear in letterpress text along the upper and lower borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PREMIA DE MAR 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Premià de Mar 1 Peseta) |
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Premià de Mar is a small coastal municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money after the Republic's silver coinage vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. The Generalitat eventually tried to systematize this flood of municipal paper under the decree of September 1936, but local councils had already been printing on their own terms for weeks.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these wartime municipal emissions out of Barcelona, which is why the production quality across different issuing councils often looks strikingly similar despite nominally independent origins.