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1 Peseta Sesrovires
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sesrovires |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper with a geometric border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears at left, flanked by decorative vignettes of bunches of grapes and vine leaves. The remaining surface is occupied by the full text of the municipal guarantee, with the face value numeral repeated at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Pta. (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Sesrovires is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, southwest of Barcelona. During the Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable — forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own paper currency under Republican authority. Sesrovires was one of them. These locally issued notes, collectively called "moneda local" or "bitllets municipals," were legal only within the issuing commune and had no value once the Francoist advance rendered the Republican administrative structure defunct.
Grafos, by 1937 collectivized under CNT-FAI control, printed a significant portion of the Catalan municipal issues.