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1 Peseta Puigpelat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Puigpelat (Municipality of Puigpelat) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white card stock with unadorned letterpress typography in dark ink throughout. The issuing authority appears in bold capitals across the top, separated from the central text by a double horizontal rule; the denomination 'VAL per 1 Pesseta' is set in large bold type at centre, with the purpose clause in smaller roman type below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Mayor (L'Alcalde) at left and the Secretary (El Secretari) at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PUIGPELAT (Translation: City Council of Puigpelat) |
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Puigpelat is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like dozens of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War — a direct response to the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation after 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply small-denomination coinage forced local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to print their own scrip.
The sole security measure is an official municipal stamp, which varied in ink color and placement between impressions — making forgery easy and authentication today genuinely difficult. Turró's cataloguing of this series remains the primary reference for Catalan Civil War local issues.