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1 Peseta Rellinars
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rellinars |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Dark green letterpress on cream paper; the face value "UNA PESSETA" is set in large bold lettering within a central rectangular frame enclosed by an ornate guilloche-style oval vignette with scrollwork and radiating fan motifs. Numeral "1" appears in large type at both lower corners, and a small framed legend below the central vignette states the note's mandatory circulation within the municipal term. The printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RELLINARS UNA PESSETA DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL 1 (Translation: Municipal Council of Rellinars One Peseta of mandatory currency throughout the entire Municipal term) |
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Rellinars is a tiny municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Notes like this one were issued under the Generalitat de Catalunya's 1937 authorization allowing local councils to print their own fractional currency — a practical response to the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coins from circulation as metal was hoarded or redirected to the war effort.
The Centre d'Administració Municipal on Carrer Casanova in Barcelona printed emergency scrip for dozens of these small Catalan councils, which is why the production quality is consistent across municipalities that could never have managed printing independently. Turró catalogs well over two thousand such issues.