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1 Peseta Camarles
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Camarles |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink with a geometric rectangular border frame enclosing the text field. The coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya is positioned to the left, serving as the principal vignette. The remaining surface carries the authorising text in Catalan, laid out in a typographic composition typical of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CAMARLES Certificat d`Una Pesseta de curs legal en aquesta localitat, per facilitar el canvi, segons acord d`aquest Consell La validesa l`acredita el segell d`aquest Municipi, estampat al dors. (Translation: Generalitat of Catalonia Municipal Council of Camarles Certificate of One Peseta of legal tender in this locality, to facilitate the change, according to the agreement of this Council Validity is certified by the seal of this Municipality, stamped on the back.) |
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Camarles is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and this note is one of thousands of local emergency emissions that flooded Republican-held Spain after the summer of 1936, when the hoarding of metallic coin created an acute shortage of small change. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses were effectively forced into issuing their own fractional currency — a phenomenon documented across Catalonia and the Levant in particular.
Printed by Imprenta Querol of Tortosa, a local press that produced emergency notes for several nearby municipalities during the same period. The official stamp is the primary — arguably the only — security measure, consistent with the rushed, improvised nature of the entire wartime local-currency episode. Turró catalogues over a thousand such emissions from the region.