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1 Peseta Rupit
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rupit |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE RUPIT S`ABONA DE LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT d`UNA PESSETA per acord del 6 de juny del 1937 Bitllet de curs local obligatori (Translation: Municipal Council of Rupit The Municipal Fund is paid to the bearer the amount of One Peseta By virtue of agreement of June 6, 1937. Mandatory local course banknote) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL RUPIT 1 PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council Rupit 1 Peseta) |
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Rupit is a tiny medieval village in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and its wartime peseta notes are among the more striking examples of municipal emergency currency produced during the Civil War. By 1936–37, the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — had forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own paper. Rupit, with a population then numbering in the hundreds, was no exception.
The printer, C.A.M. in Barcelona, handled a significant volume of these local emissions, which accounts for a certain consistency of production quality across otherwise wildly varied issuing bodies. Turró catalogues this as #2230.