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1 Peseta Sentmenat
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sentmenat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow note with a rectangular perimeter frame enclosing the central vignette, which presents an allegory of labour: a worker wielding a pickaxe against a mountainous landscape rendered in the background. The composition is printed in a two-colour scheme with bold graphic lines consistent with locally produced emergency issues of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL SENTMENAT 1 PESSETA 2ª EMISSIÓ. Reintegrable a la Dipositaria Municipal per acord del 26 d'agost del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Sentmenat 1 Peseta 2nd Issue. Refundable to the Municipal Depositary by agreement of August 26, 1937) |
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Sentmenat is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca, northwest of Barcelona. During the Civil War, the Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to issue their own emergency fractional currency — the moneda de necessitat — to address a severe shortage of small-denomination coins that had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936. Hundreds of Catalan towns produced their own notes and tokens under this scheme, Sentmenat among them.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for this material, and the relatively high sequential number (2342) reflects just how many distinct municipal issues were documented across Catalonia in this short window.