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1 Peseta Tordera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tordera (Municipality of Tordera) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse is framed by a combined dotted and floral border ornament. The municipal coat of arms of Tordera is positioned to the left, flanking the central authorization text in Catalan confirming the note's validity for circulation throughout the Tordera district. The overall design remains simple and typographic, characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
| Reverse lettering | VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el terme de Tordera. UNA pesseta (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the Tordera town. One Peseta) |
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Tordera is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The central government's failure to supply adequate small change pushed the problem down to the municipal level, generating thousands of distinct local issues — a numismatic chaos that the Generalitat of Catalonia tried, with limited success, to regulate.
Imprenta V. Pedemonte in nearby Calella printed for several Maresme municipalities, making regional attribution of undocumented issues occasionally possible through typography alone.