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1 Peseta Súria
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Súria (Municipality of Súria) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress on cream paper with a geometric guilloche border framing the entire note. The municipal coat of arms of Súria is positioned to the left, accompanied by the issuing authority text and conditions of redemption arranged in a dense typographic layout. The lower portion bears the place and date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-toned paper printed in violet with a fine geometric guilloche border running the full perimeter. The numeral '1' appears within a circular guilloche vignette to the left, while the Catalan text of authorization occupies the right field in bold letterpress. A serial number prefixed 'No' is printed in the lower left area. |
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Súria is a small mining town in Catalonia — potash extraction, not much else — and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican zone ran desperately short of small-denomination coinage. The Consell Municipal authorized these notes under the broader framework of wartime local scrip that proliferated across the region from 1936 onward.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona print shop with clear political affiliations; "Avant" is Catalan for "Forward," and the firm produced material for several left-leaning municipal governments during the war years. Turró catalogs this issue as 2416, placing it firmly within the vast documentation of Catalan Civil War notgeld.