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1 Peseta Sils
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sils (Municipality of Sils) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SILS Sessió 22-5-1937 VAL per UNA pta. Sils, maig 1937 (Translation: City Council of Sils Session 22-May-1937 Valid for One Peseta Sils, May 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | L'Ajuntament entregarà l'import del present val en moneda legal, al presentador del mateix. (Translation: The City Council will deliver the amount of this voucher in legal currency to the person presenting it.) |
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Sils is a small municipality in the comarca of La Selva, Girona, and this note is one of hundreds of local emergency issues produced across Republican-controlled Catalonia during the Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37 — caused by hoarding, silver requisitions, and supply disruption — forced even tiny town councils to print their own paper money to keep local commerce functioning. Turró catalogues over 2,000 such issues; the Sils peseta is among the more obscure, reflecting a municipality with limited administrative resources and a very small intended circulation area.