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1 Peseta Roquetes
| Issuer | Roquetes, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on buff-coloured card stock, with a dotted rectangular border forming the perimeter frame. The denomination 'UNA' is set in large bold letters at centre, flanked on each side by small floral ornaments and the numeral '1', with 'PESETA' inscribed below. The issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top and 'ROQUETAS' at the bottom, all in dark ink. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a large oval municipal stamp printed in green at left, enclosing a vignette of a castle with a barrel at its base, surrounded by a laurel wreath. The circular legend reads 'AYUNTAMIENTO CONS. DE ROQUETAS'. To the right, the handstamped serial number is printed in green ink. |
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Roquetes is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency fractional currencies — known collectively as moneda local or paper de guerra — produced by Catalan and Republican-controlled municipalities during the Civil War. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local bodies to fill the severe small-denomination coin shortage that gripped the Republican zone from mid-1937, when hoarding and metal requisitioning had stripped coins from everyday commerce entirely.
Turró's catalog documents just how many of these small-town emissions were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever card stock was locally available. Survival rates vary wildly by issuing municipality.