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1 Peseta Cabanabona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cabanabona (Municipality of Cabanabona) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#550 |
| Obverse description | Typeset text in dark brown ink on orange cardboard, with the municipal authority inscription across the top and the large numeral denomination in bold letterpress at centre. Two manuscript signatures appear in blue ink below, attributed to the Treasurer (El Caixer) at lower left and the Mayor (L'Alcalde) at lower right. A serial number printed vertically along the right margin completes the design. |
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| Reverse description | Plain orange cardboard reverse bearing a single oval municipal stamp applied in blue-violet ink at centre, enclosing a coat of arms vignette and the circular legend of the Constitutional Mayoralty of Cabanabona. The remainder of the surface is blank. |
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Cabanabona is a tiny municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, Catalonia — population then, as now, numbering in the hundreds. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage, hoarded out of circulation within months of the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities, regardless of size, were left to print their own emergency paper to make change. Cabanabona was among the smallest to do so.
The Turró catalogue documents this local fractional money systematically; reference 550 places it within a well-mapped but vast field of Catalan wartime municipals. Cardboard construction was typical of the smallest issuers, who lacked access to proper banknote paper.