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1 Peseta Sant Pol de Mar
| Issuer | Sant Pol de Mar, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SANT POL DE MAR (Translation: City Council of Sant Pol de Mar) |
| Reverse description | Cream-colored card stock, also repurposed from Milícies Catalanes recruitment cards, retaining the original printed text as background underprint. The face value is applied in carmine-colored letterpress at centre, accompanied by a black hand-stamped serial number. |
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Sant Pol de Mar was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that began printing their own fractional currency in the summer of 1936 after the military uprising triggered a collapse in small-denomination coin circulation. The Republican government's initial failure to address the shortage pushed the problem down to the local level — town councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses improvised their own solutions.
Municipal issues from small coastal towns like Sant Pol are among the most ephemeral of the series. Low print runs, local redemption windows, and wartime destruction kept survivor populations thin. Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Catalan emergency issues; this is one of the more obscure entries in that sequence.