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1 Peseta Taradell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Taradell (Municipality of Taradell) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text arranged within a double-line rectangular border; an oval medallion at left contains the local municipal coat of arms set over a vignette of the local landscape. All legends are printed in brown ink on plain paper stock. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress text with a pen-drawn vignette of the Font Gran (Great Fountain), a seven-spouted fountain situated on the outskirts of the town, flanked by three stylised ears of wheat. The composition is spare and unadorned, consistent with wartime emergency issue printing. |
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Taradell is a small municipality in Osona, inland Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few thousand during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War years when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply disrupted by the collapse of normal commerce. These municipal issues, called "moneda local" or sometimes "bitllets de necessitat," were legal only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction, and acceptance beyond the town limits depended entirely on informal trust.
The printer, C.A.M. in Barcelona, produced notes for numerous small Catalan municipalities during this period, which explains a certain family resemblance across many Osona-region issues.