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1 Peseta Sadurní d'Anoia
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sadurní d'Anoia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative floral and foliate border. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears at right, while at left a female allegorical figure holds a cup alongside a cornucopia. The central text block carries the issuing authority, date, and redemption clauses, with a red official stamp applied over the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE SADURNÍ D`ANOIA 21 ABR. 1937 (with red buffer stamp) UNA PESSETA Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Sadurní d`Anoia (Translation: Municipal Council of Sadurní d`Anoia April 21, 1937 (with red buffer stamp) One Peseta Redeemable at the Municipal Treasury Mandatory course for the entire municipality of Sadurní d`Anoia) |
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Sadurní d'Anoia — better known today as Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, the capital of Catalan cava production — issued local emergency currency in 1937 because the Republican government's inability to keep low-denomination coinage in circulation had created a genuine transactional crisis across Catalonia. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own paper substitutes, and this 1 Peseta is among those produced entirely within the issuing town itself, printed at a collectivized press operating under anarcho-syndicalist management during the early phase of the social revolution.
Turró catalogues this as #2240. The wartime collectivization of the Benaiges print shop is the more interesting detail — the "Impremta Col·lectiva" designation is not decorative.