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1 Peseta Reus
| Issuer | Reus, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta De Ferrando, Reus, Spain |
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| Reverse description | At centre, an oval medallion contains a rose, the heraldic emblem of the city of Reus; surrounding it are allegorical figures representing labour, commerce, industry, and study, including a worker with a mallet, female figures with a caduceus and a book, and factory buildings with smoking chimneys rendered in a compositional arrangement typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE REUS UNA PESSETA BITLLET DE CIRCULACIÓ OBLIGATORIA EN TOTA LA JURISDICCIÓ MUNICIPAL (Translation: Municipal Council of Reus One Peseta Mandatory circulation banknote in all the Municipal Jurisdiction) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency paper currency. Reus, a major commercial town in Tarragona province with a history of independent civic action, was among the more prolific local issuers, printing several denominations through its own municipal press.
Imprenta De Ferrando was a local commercial printer, not a security press. That matters: these notes were never designed for longevity, and paper quality was inconsistent across the run.