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1 Peseta Torredembarra
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torredembarra |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torredembarra Una pesseta Emès per aquest Consell per tal de facilitar el canvi, reemborsable a la seva caixa. Acord pres el 20 de Maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Torredembarra One Peseta Issued by this Council in order to facilitate change, refundable at its Treasury. Agreement taken on May 20, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in bluish green ink on a beige ground underprinted with a repeating shell motif. A geometric border frames the note on all sides, mirroring the obverse design, and the central field carries the denomination and validity inscription restricting use to the municipal term. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936. Municipalities across Catalonia responded by printing their own emergency paper currency — locally called *moneda local* or *val* — under a framework reluctantly tolerated by the Generalitat. Torredembarra, a small coastal town south of Tarragona, was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities to do so.
Imprenta Sonsona was a local press, not a specialist security printer. Production quality across municipal emissions of this type varies considerably, and Torredembarra's issues are no exception.