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1 Peseta Sant Martí del Bas
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sant Martí del Bas |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuer name "AJUNTAMENT DE S. MARTÍ DEL BAS" appears in bold uppercase letters at the top, underlined by a double rule. A handwritten serial number is centred in the middle field, accompanied by a faint oval validation stamp in violet ink, above the large-type denomination statement "Val 1 pesseta" and the mandatory-circulation notice "CURS OBLIGATORI". A small-type legal warning against disrupting circulation is set within ruled borders at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE S. MARTÍ DEL BAS Val 1 pesseta CURS OBLIGATORI L'intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament. (Translation: City Council of Sant Martí del Bas It's worth 1 Peseta Mandatory circulation The attempt to disrupt the circulation of this Voucher will be severely penalized.) |
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Sant Martí del Bas is a small village in the Collsacabra area of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities it issued its own emergency small-change notes during the Civil War when coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely by 1936–37. These local emissions — known collectively as moneda de paper or paper money of the municipios — were produced under the authority of the Republican-aligned local councils, often printed by whatever means were locally available. Thick card stock was common precisely because the municipalities had no access to proper banknote paper.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 distinct municipal issues from this period; Sant Martí del Bas at reference 2277 is among the less documented ones, with surviving population figures that remain uncertain.