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1 Peseta Torregrossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torregrossa (Municipality of Torregrossa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress printing on cream paper with a dotted ornamental border enclosing the central text block. The municipal coat of arms of Torregrossa is positioned to the left, flanking the issuing authority's name and the promise-to-pay legend. The date of issue, June 1937, appears within the lower portion of the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE TORREGROSSA Aquest Ajuntament abonarà al portador UNA PESSETA Juny del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Torregrossa This City Council will pay the bearer One Peseta June 1937) |
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Torregrossa is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when the national coinage supply collapsed after 1936. These local issues — generically called "moneda local" or "bitllets municipals" — were authorized under Republican decree to fill the vacuum left by hoarded and melted metal coin. Turró's catalog documents over three thousand such issues; #2543 places Torregrossa squarely in the middle of that extraordinary proliferation.
Most municipal issues from villages of this size were printed by local job shops, sometimes with rudimentary typography. Survival rates vary sharply — some villages produced only a few hundred notes.