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1 Peseta Reus
| Issuer | Reus, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a vignette of the Gothic tower of the Sant Pere priory set against smoking factory chimneys; to the left, an oval medallion framed by ears of wheat contains a portrait of the Reusenc painter Marià Fortuny i Marsal. Text panels carry the issuing authority's legends and the date of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE REUS LA DIPOSITARIA MUNICIPAL PAGARA AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT D`UNA Pesseta Reus 14 d`Abril del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Reus The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Reus, April 14, 1937) |
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Reus was one of hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities that issued their own emergency paper money during the Civil War after Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The central government in Valencia lacked both the capacity and the political leverage to stop it. Local printers like Ferrando stepped in, and the resulting notes varied wildly in quality, security, and public acceptance from town to town.
Turró's catalog of Spanish Civil War municipal issues documents over 2,000 distinct notes; the Reus series is among the more complete survivors from the Tarragona province.