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1 Peseta Torroja
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torroja del Priorat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text typeset in black letterpress. The issuer title 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' is printed in bold capitals across the top, underlined by a ruled horizontal line. The denomination 'Val per 1'00 pesseta' is set in large bold type at centre, followed by the purpose clause and place-date line in smaller roman type. Two manuscript signatures appear at foot, beneath the printed role designations 'El Conseller Primer' and 'El Tresorer', with a sequential serial number printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL Val per 1'00 pesseta al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Torroja, Febrer del 1.937 El Conseller Primer El Tresorer Núm. (Translation: Municipal Council / Valid for 1.00 peseta / with the sole purpose of facilitating change / Torroja, February 1937 / The First Councillor The Treasurer / No.) |
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Torroja del Priorat is a village of a few hundred inhabitants in the wine-growing hills of Tarragona. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper when Republican Spain's central coin supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. These municipal notes — *vales* or *bitllets locals* — were authorized under a 1936 Generalitat de Catalunya decree that effectively deputized town councils as ad hoc issuers of fractional currency.
The official stamp is the sole security measure, which was typical of the smaller village issues and did nothing to prevent local forgery — though the circulation area was so limited that fraud was rarely worth the effort. Turró catalogues over 2,500 distinct Catalan local issues from this period; Torroja's single denomination suggests a modest, short-lived emission.