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1 Peseta Selva de Mar
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Selva de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with the face value and issue date written entirely by hand in ink. A large oval municipal stamp in blue-violet ink is applied at centre, partially overlapping the handwritten text, serving as the sole authenticating device on this side. |
| Reverse lettering | Val per una pesseta 11 de setembre 1937 (Translation: Voucher for One Peseta September 11, 1937) |
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Selva de Mar is a tiny coastal municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia — population well under a thousand even today. Like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 after the collapse of normal coin circulation, which had been hoarded, melted, or simply removed from use. These local emissions were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework but were entirely a municipal responsibility in practice.
Turró catalogues this as #2326, placing it firmly within the vast corpus of Catalan wartime locals. Small-municipality issues from this period were printed in very limited quantities and rarely survived the war intact.