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1 Peseta Sabadell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sabadell (Municipality of Sabadell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a reclining female figure holding a bobbin of thread, an allegorical reference to the textile industry for which Sabadell was historically renowned. The surrounding text constitutes the formal promise-to-pay declaration of the municipal authority, framed in a simple typographic layout consistent with letterpress emergency note production of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Central diamond-shaped municipal coat of arms of Sabadell, flanked by laurel and olive branches. To the left, a vignette of factory buildings with smoking chimneys evokes the city's industrial character; to the right, the façade of the Industrial School of Arts and Crafts is rendered in a corresponding vignette. The denomination is stated below in simple typographic letterpress. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate supplies of small-denomination coinage prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency paper currency — moneda local — under a decree that formalized what many towns had already begun doing out of necessity. Sabadell, a significant textile-manufacturing city in the Vallès Occidental, was among the more prolific issuers, producing multiple denominations through its own municipal print shop.
Joan Sallent was a long-established local printer, not a specialist security press. The absence of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures was a deliberate trade-off — speed and local control mattered more than security for notes intended to circulate only within a single municipality.