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1 Peseta Sarral
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sarral (Municipality of Sarral) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Pale green card stock printed in dark blue-black letterpress. The Catalan quatre barres coat of arms appears in an ornamental frame at the upper left. The municipal authority and denomination text is arranged in a centred, tiered layout with thin horizontal rules flanking the value line. Three small circles in a row serve as a decorative device below the denomination, and a small ornamental printer's mark appears to the right of the date at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale green card stock, otherwise blank save for a hand-applied oval municipal stamp in violet ink, centrally placed, bearing the arms of Sarral and the legend of the Alcaldia Constitucional de Sarral around the perimeter. |
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Sarral is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and this note is a product of the acute small-change crisis that gripped Republican-controlled Spain from mid-1936 onward. As the Civil War disrupted coin supply chains and hoarding drained hard money from circulation, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many with populations under two thousand — issued their own emergency paper, authorized under a framework loosely sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Sarral's issue was printed locally by Imprenta Solé in Tarragona, a commercial press that handled multiple municipal emergency issues across the province.
The sole security measure is an official municipal stamp applied by hand — a practical choice for a local authority with no access to sophisticated anti-counterfeiting technology. Turró catalogues this as #2285.