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1 Peseta Torelló
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torelló |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the face is enclosed within a geometric typographic border. An oval medallion at left contains the municipal coat of arms of Torelló, while the denomination and issuing authority are rendered in structured letterpress typography distributed across the note in formal text blocks. The date of issue and the declaration of obligatory local circulation appear in the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse is framed by a decorative floral border set against a background of fine horizontal ruling. A central rectangular text panel carries the guarantee declaration in formal letterpress typography, with the denomination repeated beneath in bold type. |
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Torelló is a small industrial town in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the withdrawal and hoarding of metallic coinage left local commerce effectively paralyzed. The Generalitat's centralized emission could not keep pace with demand at the municipal level, so councils were granted — and in many cases simply assumed — the authority to issue their own notes.
The C.A.M. imprint is a reliable marker for wartime Catalan municipal issues: the cooperative printing facility handled contracts for dozens of these local emergencies, working under severe material constraints throughout 1937.