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1 Peseta Tagamanent
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Tagamanent |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue underprint with dark blue letterpress text and a geometric border framing the entire face. The central field carries the issuing authority and obligation clauses in Catalan, with the denomination stated in numeral and text form. A formal typographic layout reflects the emergency wartime issue character of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TAGAMANENT Es pagarà al portador la quantitat de 1 pesseta Tagamanent, setembre 1937 Bitllet de curs local obligatori Acord Municipal de 28 de Setembre del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Tagamanent The amount of 1 Peseta will be paid to the bearer Tagamanent, September 1937 Mandatory local currency banknote Municipal agreement of September 28, 1937) |
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Tagamanent is a tiny municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca, northeast of Barcelona — its population in the 1930s was well under a thousand. Like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish local councils during the Civil War, it issued its own small-denomination paper money in 1937 after the Republican government's decree authorizing municipal councils to plug the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. Gràfiques Unificades in nearby Granollers printed notes for dozens of these small councils, which accounts for the family resemblance across many Turró-listed Catalan locals of this period.
Granollers itself was bombed in June 1938 — one of the war's more notorious civilian air attacks — though the notes had already been issued by then.