Catalog
1 Peseta Roses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Roses |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain note printed in green on cream paper, with a simple rectangular border frame. The text is arranged in three tiers: the issuer name in bold capitals at the top, the promise-to-pay clause in a smaller italic-style band across the centre, and the denomination in large bold letterpress type below. A purple manuscript signature appears beneath the printed caption "EL PRESIDENT," in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1`00 pta. (Translation: 1.00 Peseta) |
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Roses is a small coastal municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War years, it issued its own emergency fractional paper currency when the Republic's supply of small coin collapsed entirely. These municipally-issued notes — guerra civil paper, broadly — were an ad hoc solution, often printed locally with whatever equipment was available, and the Consell Municipal de Roses was no exception to that improvised pattern.
Turró catalogs this as #2212, placing it within a well-documented but enormous body of Catalan municipal emissions. Survival rates for these small-denomination wartime issues vary wildly by town; Roses examples turn up occasionally but are not among the frequently encountered pieces.